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Where was God when I needed him? (get a hanky ready)
Unattributed | 4/19/04 | Unknown

Posted on 04/19/2004 4:35:37 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants

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 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 '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.

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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1 posted on 04/19/2004 4:35:38 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants
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To: Blood of Tyrants
The greatest gift God gives us is freedom, and the price of freedom is that we are subject to the forces of the cosmos.
2 posted on 04/19/2004 4:42:50 PM PDT by Agnes Heep (Solus cum sola non cogitabuntur orare pater noster)
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To: Blood of Tyrants
This is good, I read this awhile ago.
3 posted on 04/19/2004 4:45:06 PM PDT by navygal (God loves all sinners, not the sin.)
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To: Blood of Tyrants
Thank you for this.
4 posted on 04/19/2004 4:45:13 PM PDT by OldFriend (Always understand, even if you remain among the few)
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To: Blood of Tyrants
It's a beautiful story.
5 posted on 04/19/2004 4:46:14 PM PDT by tioga
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To: Agnes Heep
You believe that?

I mean, God could not have designed a universe where our own bodies would not become our enemies? Sure, death by strangulation, earthquake, storms, mudslides, drowning, stabbing, bludgeoning, starvation--all these makes sense--but cancer or viruses couldn't have been excluded?

We would still have freedom if there weren't viruses, cancers, etc and you know it.
6 posted on 04/19/2004 4:48:41 PM PDT by Skywalk
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To: Blood of Tyrants
http://www.ousob.com/mediafiles/i_can_only_imagine.asx
7 posted on 04/19/2004 4:48:51 PM PDT by truth4
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To: Skywalk
It's way over my head, too.
8 posted on 04/19/2004 4:55:23 PM PDT by hole_n_one
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To: Skywalk
Try GOD
9 posted on 04/19/2004 4:57:05 PM PDT by truth4
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To: Blood of Tyrants
My Immortal by Evanescence

I'm so tired of being here. Suppressed by all my childhood fears.
And if you have to leave, I wish that you would just leave.
Cause your presence still lingers here, and it won't leave me alone.
These wounds won't seem to heal, this pain is just too real,
there's just too much that time cannot erase.

Refrain:

When you cried I'd wipe away all of your tears,
When you'd scream I'd fight away all of your fears.
I held your hand through all of these years.
But you still have... All of me.

You used to captivate me by your resonating mind,
Now I'm bound by the life you left behind.
Your face it haunts my once pleasant dreams
Your voice has chased away all the sanity in me.
These wounds won't seem to heal, this pain is just too real,
there's just too much that time cannot erase.

[Refrain]

I tried so hard to tell myself that you're gone. But though you're still with me,
I've been alone all along.

[Refrain]

10 posted on 04/19/2004 4:58:53 PM PDT by rudypoot
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To: Skywalk
My grandfather, father and cousin all died from cancer and my wife died of a heart attack. I was diagnosed with canc er two and a half years ago and have been cancer-free for two years now. My faith in God has never wavered and instead grows stronger every day. When He calls you home the manner of your death is insignificant.
11 posted on 04/19/2004 4:59:45 PM PDT by SVTCobra03 (You can never have enough friends, horsepower or ammunition.)
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To: SVTCobra03
It is difficult to respond to such a post because, for me, the deaths of your loved ones is a very sad topic and one with which you can have entangled other beliefs(as we all do.)

Philosophically, it is easy to observe that we do not agree on this issue. I don't think anyone is called home, be it from murder or cancer or volcano. The very idea that thousands would be "called home" during a volcano all at the same time seems a bit odd.

I think we die when we die because we are killed. I think the very processes that allowed life to develop also contribute to cancers and other diseases that afflict us.

It's not really a comment on God, but a comment on the attributes people assign to God, which I don't believe really exist.

The plan is for you to live your life and live it well, I think. But if an evil man or the destructiveness of nature takes you before you even reach adulthood, that is but tragic accident.

It doesn't mean that there can't be a God, Gods, Force or whoever or that you can't go to a Heaven or Paradise, etc--just that I don't think what we do is a "plan."
12 posted on 04/19/2004 5:09:25 PM PDT by Skywalk
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To: Agnes Heep
What the dickens are you talking about. God DID design an Earth without poverty and sickness and death. It was sin that caused all these terrible things.

God's greatest gift besides our very existance is a way to be cleansed completely of our sins once we leave this life by sending His son to die as the perfect sacrifice atoning all sins forever. Man was condemned to death by the sins of one man and man was redeemed from the curse of death by the death of one who had no sin at all.
13 posted on 04/19/2004 5:10:12 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Even if the government took all your earnings, you wouldn't be, in its eyes, a slave.)
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To: Skywalk
NT, sky...the ways of dying you listed would bring (and does bring) as much outrage toward God, if not more. Your categories are funny, too.

So instead of your own body being an enemy, you prefer nature and other men to kill you.

Next, nothing to see here....

14 posted on 04/19/2004 5:13:02 PM PDT by harbinger of doom (Don't be so open minded your brain falls out)
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To: Skywalk
I think my belief system is structured perhaps a bit differently than yours. I don't see the morphological entities of the cosmos as having been deliberately created. I see the fundamental reality of the cosmos as having been created, with the cosmos and everything in it arising from the natural progression of events thus set in motion, without interference by God. God recognizes Man because, as a consequence of that progression, Man has developed the sapience to recognize God.

15 posted on 04/19/2004 5:13:13 PM PDT by Agnes Heep (Solus cum sola non cogitabuntur orare pater noster)
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To: Blood of Tyrants
Sorry, I'm not a Christian. Preach it to the choir.
16 posted on 04/19/2004 5:14:09 PM PDT by Agnes Heep (Solus cum sola non cogitabuntur orare pater noster)
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To: Blood of Tyrants
God DID design an Earth without poverty and sickness and death. It was sin that caused all these terrible things.

God was outfoxed by sin or he doesn't much care?

17 posted on 04/19/2004 5:15:31 PM PDT by sakic
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To: Skywalk
You seem confused. First you deny the existance of God, then you claim that there is some sort of "plan". If there is no God, there is no good and there is no evil except in the minds of men which are subject to change and folly.


I know that there are things I cannot comprehend such as to exactly why Einstein's Theory of Relativity works yet I have faith that it does.

I soundly reject your arguments.
18 posted on 04/19/2004 5:16:39 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Even if the government took all your earnings, you wouldn't be, in its eyes, a slave.)
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To: Skywalk
God could not have designed a universe where our own bodies would not become our enemies?

That's what sin really does to us all. It's not all the damn's or hell's you've said. Nor is it all the chaitable work you've done. It boils down to this, God has made a way for all humanity to be reconciled to Him. You don't have to blow yourself up, nor do you have to murder infidels. It is simply the whole hearted acceptance of His sacrifice for you and you placing your trust in Him.

It's all over my head, too. I just know it's the truth.

19 posted on 04/19/2004 5:16:48 PM PDT by tbpiper
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To: Blood of Tyrants
If God did not exist it would be necessary for us to invent Him. -Voltaire
20 posted on 04/19/2004 5:18:41 PM PDT by US admirer
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