She jumped up as soon as she saw the surgeon come out of the operating room. She said: "How is my little boy? Is he going to be all right? When can I see him?"

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 because 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.

Oh, I almost forgot to tell you. 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 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.
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Oh, do they have natural bodily urges like hunger in heaven? How about other urges, like sexual ones?



Hands up all those who believe that this story is true and not a fiction from the Christian press?

Of course the story is inspirational, meant to give hope to the broken hearted.
But of course it cannot be a real happening or based on an actual happening. If the writers claim that it actually happened then they are liars, except if the boy's mother was delusional.
Sometimes difficult events drive people to the delusion of seeing things, sometimes it helps to comfort them. I guess it is the brain's way of helping the sorrow- stricken person deal with the situation.

But such things are not possible -- they don't eat in heaven, and no creature can sit on God's knee, neither can any creature dine with Jesus who is in the Divine plane.

justcool:

Of course the story is inspirational, meant to give hope to the broken hearted.
But of course it cannot be a real happening or based on an actual happening. If the writers claim that it actually happened then they are liars, except if the boy's mother was delusional.
Sometimes difficult events drive people to the delusion of seeing things, sometimes it helps to comfort them. I guess it is the brain's way of helping the sorrow- stricken person deal with the situation.

But such things are not possible -- they don't eat in heaven, and no creature can sit on God's knee, neither can any creature dine with Jesus who is in the Divine plane.

If this story is apocryphal as you seem to suggest but has the value of inspiring and giving hope to people, could it also be that the following stories are also apocryphal;

1) The virgin birth
2) The crucifiction
3) Resurrection
4) The second-coming

Humankind invented story-telling as a means of giving hope and finding their place in an unpleasant world. The bible is just one such narratives.

huxley:

If this story is apocryphal as you seem to suggest but has the value of inspiring and giving hope to people, could it also be that the following stories are also apocryphal;

1) The virgin birth
2) The crucifiction
3) Resurrection
4) The second-coming

Humankind invented story-telling as a means of giving hope and finding their place in an unpleasant world. The bible is just one such narratives.

Boy, aren’t we getting a little bit paranoid here. Or am I just crediting you with more intelligence than you deserve? Even a baby can differentiate between ACTUAL HAPPENINGS, INSPIRATIONAL STORIES and MIRACLES; and you can’t?? I'm for you!!

Ujujoan:

Boy, aren’t we getting a little bit paranoid here. Or am I just crediting you with more intelligence than you deserve? Even a baby can differentiate between ACTUAL HAPPENINGS, INSPIRATIONAL STORIES and MIRACLES; and you can’t?? I'm for you!!

Oh, let not my palpable lack of intelligence be the subject of the discussion. That would be a great distraction from the subject matter.

All I was asking for was the criteria for distinguishing [b]ACTUAL HAPPENINGS, INSPIRATIONAL STORIES and MIRACLES[/b]and how a man of little intelligence like myself could tell which from which?

Can you apply those criteria to the following?

1) The virgin birth
2) The crucifiction
3) Resurrection
4) The second-coming

huxley:

Oh,[b] let not my palpable lack of intelligence be the subject of the dis[/b]cussion. That would be a great distraction from the subject matter.

How can it not be, these questions you are asking can be answered by anybody with common sence. But then of course, common sense's not always that common!!!

So you want criteria Get born again and ask the Holy spirit to direct you. Just an advise from a caring sister

Thanks ujujoan,

some people think they can actually change the world by telling the already established stories backward.

zuby77,  do you live in Berlin? if yes i will like to no some African shop in Berlin .

benincitys:

zuby77,  do you live in Berlin? if yes i will like to no some  African shop in Berlin .

though we are not supposed to be talking about this here.
there are a lot of afroshops in NEUKOLN.
I hope you know the Neukoln area of Berlin, that where you get all the  afroshops.

just take u-ban (u-
from alexanderplatz to Bodin strasse.
look for flughafen strasse.
You can even find me there