A Letter To Mom

~The surgeon said, "I'm sorry.~We did all we could, but your boy didn't make it."~Sally said, "Why do little children get cancer?~Doesn't God care any more?~Where were you, God, when my son needed you?"~The surgeon asked,~"Would you like some time alone with your son?~One of the nurses will be out in a few minutes, before he's transported to the university."~Sally asked the nurse to stay with her while she said good-bye to son.~She ran her fingers lovingly through his thick red curly hair.~"Would you like a lock of his hair?" the nurse asked.~Sally nodded yes.~The nurse cut a lock of the boy's hair,~put it in a plastic bag and handed it to Sally.~The mother said,~"It was Jimmy's idea to donate his body to the university for study.~He said it might help somebody else.~I said no at first, but Jimmy said,~"Mom, I won't be using it after I die.~ Maybe it will help some other little boy spend one more day with his Mom."~She went on, "My Jimmy had a heart of gold.~ Always thinking of someone else.~Always wanting to help others if he could."~

~Sally walked out of Children's mercy Hospital for the last time, after spending most of the last six months there.~She put the bag with Jimmy's belongings on the seat beside her in the car.~The drive home was difficult.~It was even harder to enter the empty house.~She carried Jimmy's belongings, and the plastic bag with the lock of his hair to her son's room.~She started placing the model cars and other personal things back in his room exactly where he had always kept them.~She laid down across his bed and, hugging his pillow,~cried herself to sleep.~

~It was around midnight when Sally awoke.~Laying beside her on the bed was a folded letter.~

~The letter said:~ "Dear Mom,~I know you're going to miss me;~but don't think that I will ever forget you, or stop loving you,~just 'cause I'm not around to say I LOVE YOU.~I will always love you, Mom, even more with each day.~Someday we will see each other again.~ Until then, if you want to adopt a little boy so you won't be so lonely, that's okay with me.~He can have my room and old stuff to play with.~But, if you decide to get a girl instead,~she probably wouldn't like the same things us boys do.~You'll have to buy her dolls and stuff girls like, you know.~Don't be sad thinking about me.~

~This really is a neat place.~Grandma and Grandpa met me as soon as I got here and showed me around some,~but it will take a long time to see everything.~The angels are so cool.~I love to watch them fly.~And, you know what?~Jesus doesn't look like any of his pictures.~Yet, when I saw Him,~I knew it was Him.~Jesus himself took me to see GOD!~And guess what, Mom?~I got to sit on God's knee and talk to Him,~ like I was somebody important.~That's when I told Him that I wanted to write you a letter,~to tell you good-bye and everything.~But I already knew that wasn't allowed.~Well, you know what Mom?~ God handed me some paper and His own personal pen to write you this letter.~I think Gabriel is the name of the angel who is going to drop this letter off to you.~God said for me to give you the answer to one of the questions you asked Him~'Where was He when I needed him?'~"God said He was in the same place with me,~as when His son Jesus was on the cross.~ He was right there,~as He always is with all His children.~

~Oh, by the way,~ Mom, no one else can see what I've written except you.~To everyone else this is just a blank piece of paper.~Isn't that cool?~I have to give God His pen back now.~He needs it to write some more names in the Book of Life.~Tonight I get to sit at the table with Jesus for supper.~ I'm, sure the food will be great.~p>~ Oh, I almost forgot to tell you.~I don't hurt anymore.~The cancer is all gone.~p>~I'm glad because I couldn't stand that pain anymore~and God couldn't stand to see me hurt so much, either.~That's when He sent The Angel of Mercy to come get me.~The Angel said I was a Special Delivery!~How about that?~

Signed with Love from:~God, Jesus & Me.~