While searching for heartbreaking Santa letters and inspirational stories of the season, I came across this story which will touch you no matter who you are, or what you call God.
At certain age kids realize that Santa is someone for the wee one's and they are too old to write him for gifts and dreams, so who do you write when Santa is not the one to grant your wishes anymore? Well one teacher in Boston, though he’d have his students write God. While it was politically appropriate for the students to write God, as Jonathan Mihal teaches a Religion class, the results of these 8th graders letters still shocked their teacher. Kids around 12 years old tend to be pretty 'stuff’ centered, or one tends to think so, but these children did not waste their ink writing to God for 'stuff’. The results where much more heartbreaking;
“…Why does there have to be so much killing?
Why do young girls get raped and hurt when they did nothing to deserve that?
Why, God, why?"”
(S. End students write heart-breaking letters to God)
Everyday we are all left with so many questions, so many beginning with “why”, and so often the answers never come. I surely do not have them, but I do know as long as we question things, as long as our children are questioning things, then we are on the right track to begin to change things.
My questions to God would have to be; ‘Why do children have to die of disease, why must children starve, why do we allow children to fight the wars of their fathers, why do we rape and abuse children for the sake of greed and twisted carnal desires…?’ Will God come back to me with an answer, probably not. I know by asking and by putting forth the questions to you, we can together work to make sure in the future children no longer have to ask why to such questions.
