SPECIAL DELIVERY

Sally 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 O.K.?   When can I   see him?" The  Surgeon said, "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 said,  "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. Sally  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.  

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 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." Sally  said, "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 laid down across his bed and cried herself to sleep  holding  his  pillow.  Sally woke up about midnight  and  laying beside of 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. Someday 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!