Cade's Letter to God
The upcoming movie, Letters to God (from the creators of Fireproof and Facing the Giants), is about a stack of undelivered letters, addressed to God by an eight-year-old boy battling cancer.
At the end of the private screening which we attended last night, Director David Nixon stood to present his passion-- that people who have been directly impacted by cancer (everyone!) would address God. He said that our promotional packet included stationery, on which we could write our own letters to God.
My kindergärtner Cade, who watched the film intently, leaned over to me and said, “When we get home, I'm going to write my very first letter to God.”
Perched on a kitchen barstool, here's what he wrote. (I'm sharing this with his permission, but I've taken the liberty of improving on his spelling!)
Dear God,
How will I do what's right? Sometimes I feel bad. I do not like what I have done.
Love, Cade
You'll notice that the stationery's subtitle reads, 'hope is contagious'. Some might think this is a sad little note, void of hope. But for me, the Mommy of the letter-writer, every line contains hope!
I have never cried in desperation over the cancer filled body of my child. But I have begged God to remove something even more malignant from my child—an unrepentant heart. Though I can get Cade to rattle off correct answers about salvation, the repentance which God requires, is not something I can inject into his heart. And so, seeing the seeds of repentance sprinkled through Cade's letter brings me such hope that God is at work in my precious boy!
“...I rejoice, not because you were grieved, but because you were grieved into repenting.... For godly grief produces a repentance that leads to salvation...” 2 Corinthians 7:9-10
May Letters to God deliver contagious hope to many!