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Hi Mark-
Neal's teacher called this morning and told me that Neal was not doing well in class- very nervous about going to Children's Hospital. Then he told her he knew he would be OK though because he wrote an email to God-
I found it in my Drafts folder, unsent of course--
This is a terrific depiction of who my boy is. He is 10, he is amazing and has the biggest, fullest heart of anyone I know!
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Hi God it is me Neal. We start all our prayers that way so I thought i should start my letter that way too.
I am writing to you but i probably don't even hafe to . Mom says that you are all around us in every person and in everything, so that means that You can see me write this. That is good because i don't know your email address.
I am writing to ask a favor but i feel very selfish about it. See but we pray every night for people and you answer all of our prayers. You help but you don't always seem get it the way we want it, but you do always make thing s work out somehow. So i want to ask you for a prayer,but it is for me is that ok to do?
God, I have a problem with my throat, it hurts and it makes it hard to breathe. the problem is that i don't always tell my mom and dad the truth about how much it hurts. i get scared a lot, but my mom can tell when I am.
Here is my prayer, my prayer is that Pastor Chuck says a prayer for me at church on Sunday. In church I always hear him say ""and we pray for so and so who was a recent pachent at Bellin hospital having a...hip raplacement". And all of the people in our church hear it and they go and pray for the sick person. I want him to say a prayer for me like that at church, is that bad? but i can't ask him it is to selfish of a thing to ask.
It would be terrible if he saw this letter to you or if I asked him to do it, too selfish. So you just need to whisper in his ear. He will listen.
I know us praying helps those other people. See when we pray at home for others we also send cards and pictures to them and they are always sending us thank you cards back, so i know it helps them, because they say it does in there letter.
It helped me, Mr Tucker sent me a card and it made me feel so good and like everything would be OK.
I will not be in church on Sunday. But God can you just tell Pastor Chuck to say a prayer for me? I need him to just somehow know that I want a prayer for me on Sunday because I am a little sick, and it all hurts more than I say and that sometimes I lie about it so people don't have to worry.
I know there are lots of people sicker and who need prayers like I do or even more than I do, So I will keep praying for them to. but God loves me too and mom says i have something special to offer the world and that she can't wait to watch me grow.
I know i will be OK.
thanks for reading this when I wrote it, now I don't have to send it and now you can decide what to do.
thank you God
I love you to
Neal
PS- Mom came home from church just now. She said Pastor Chuck mentioned me in his prayers and that she felt kinda warm after she heard him say my name.
Thanks you god. Good job god. is your name capitaled I bet it is.
So, good job God, I hear my parents say good job when I do somthing good so i thought you should too.
thank you from Neal
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