"Jimmy's Letter"
[Author Unknown]

Sally jumped up as soon as she saw the surgeon come out of the operating room and running toward him, she said, "How is my little boy? Is he going to be OK? When can I see him?"

The Surgeon said softly, "I'm sorry, we did all we could."

Sally moaned, "Why do little children get cancer anyway? Doesn't God care any more? God, where were You when my son needed You?"

The Surgeon patted her arm. "One of the nurses will be out in a few minutes to take you in so you can spend time with your son's remains before it's transported to the University."

Sally asked the nurse to stay with her while she said goodbye to her son, and as she ran her fingers through his thick red curly hair, the nurse asked, "Would you like a lock of his hair?" Sally nodded. The nurse cut a lock of his hair and put it in a plastic bag and handed it to Sally.

Sally said, "It was Jimmy's idea to give his body to the University for study. He said it might help somebody else and that's what he wanted. I said, 'no' at first, but Jimmy said, 'Mum I won't be using it after I die and maybe it will help some other little boy be able to spend one more day with his Mother'." She added, "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 beside her in the car. The drive home was hard; 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 laid down across his bed and cried herself to sleep holding his pillow.

Sally awoke about midnight. Lying beside her on the bed was a piece of paper folded up. She opened the letter and read:

"Dear Mum,
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, Mum and I'll love you even more each day. Some day we'll 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'll 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 even showed me around some, but it'll take a long time to see everything here. The angels are so friendly and they really take care of everything. JESUS doesn't look like any of the pictures I seen of Him, but I knew it was Him as soon as I seen Him. And He took me to see GOD! And guess what Mum! 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 goodbye and everything, but I was sure that wasn't allowed. But 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 who will 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. Which was right there, as He always is with all His children.

Oh by the way Mum, nobody else can see what is written on this paper but you. To everyone else it will look 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 neither could GOD stand to see me suffer the pain either, so He sent The Angel of Mercy to get me. The Angel said I was a 'Special Delivery!'"

(2 Corinthians 5:6-8 NASB) "Therefore, being always of good courage, and knowing that while we are at home in the body we are absent from the Lord -- for we walk by faith, not by sight -- we are of good courage, I say, and prefer rather to be absent from the body and to be at home with the Lord."

(Philippians 1:20-21 KJV) "According to my earnest expectation and my hope, that in nothing I shall be ashamed, but that with all boldness, as always, so now also Christ shall be magnified in my body, whether it be by life, or by death. For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain."