Sally jumped up as soon as she saw
the Surgeon come out of the operating room, saying: "How is my little boy?
Is he going to be O.K.? When can I see him?"
The surgeon responded, "I'm
sorry, we did all we could." Sally said, "Why do little children get
cancer, doesn't GOD care any more? GOD, where were you when my son needed
you?"
The surgeon softly told her,
"One of the nurses will be out in a few minutes to let you spend time with
your son's remains before it's transported to the university".
Sally asked that the nurse stay with
her while she said good-bye to her son. As she ran her fingers through his
thick red curly hair, the nurse said, "Would you like a lock of his
hair?"
Sally nodded yes. The nurse cut a
lock of his hair and put it in a plastic bag and handed it to Sally.
She gazed at her son’s body as she
spoke to the nurse.
"It was Jimmy's idea to give
his body to the university for study. He said it might help somebody else, and
that is what he wanted. 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 to be able to
spend one more day with his mother’. My Jimmy had a heart of gold, always
thinking of someone else and always wanting to help others if he could".
Sally walked out of the Children's
Hospital for the last time now after spending most of the last 6 months there.
She sat the bag with Jimmy's things in it on the seat beside of her in the car.
The drive home was hard and it was even harder to go into an empty house. She
took the bag to Jimmy's room and started placing the model cars and things back
in his room exactly where he always kept them. She lay down across his bed and
cried herself to sleep holding his pillow. Sally woke up about midnight and
lying beside her on the bed, was a letter folded up.
She opened the letter, it 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 because I'm not
around to say I LOVE YOU. I'll think of you every day mom and I'll love you
even more each day. Some day we will see each other again. If you want to adopt
a little boy so you won't be so lonely, he can have my room and my old stuff to
play with. If you decide to get a girl instead, she probably wouldn't like the
same things as us boys do, so you will have to buy her dolls and stuff girls
like.
Don't be sad when you think about
me, this is really a great 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
here.
The Angels are so friendly, and I
love to watch them fly. Jesus doesn't look like any of the pictures I saw of
Him, but I knew it was Him as soon as I saw Him. Jesus 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. I told GOD that I wanted to write you a letter and tell you good-bye
and everything, but I knew that wasn't allowed. God handed me some paper and
His own personal pen to write you this letter with. I think Gabriel is the name
of the angel that 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 about... “Where was
He when I needed him?”
God said, "The same place He
was when Jesus was on the cross. He was right there, as He always is with all
His children.” Oh, by the way Mom, nobody else can see what is written on this
paper but you. To everyone else, it looks like a blank piece of paper.
I have to give God His pen back now,
He has some more names to write 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. I almost
forgot to let you know - now I don't hurt anymore, the cancer is all gone. I'm
glad because I couldn't stand that pain anymore and God couldn't stand to see
me suffer the pain either, so He sent The Angel of Mercy to get me. The Angel
said I was Special Delivery.
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