Written By Anonymous
Dear Mom,
Can you believe its 2023 already? I’m still writing ’22 on everything. Seems like yesterday I was sitting in first grade celebrating the century change. I know we haven’t chatted since Christmas. Sorry. Anyway, I have some difficult news and I really didn’t want to call or talk face to face.
Ted’s had a promotion, and I should be up for a hefty raise this year if I keep putting in those crazy hours. You know how hard I work. Yes, we’re still really struggling with all the bills.
Joey’s been OK at kindergarten although he still complains about going. But then he wasn’t happy about day care either, so what can we do?
He’s become a real problem, Mom. He’s a good kid, but quite honestly, he’s an unfair burden at this time in our lives. Ted and I have talked this through and finally made a choice. Plenty of other families have made it and are so much better off.
Our pastor is supportive and says hard decisions sometimes are necessary. The family is a system, and the demands of one member shouldn’t be allowed to ruin the whole. He told us to be prayerful, consider all the factors, and do what is right to make the family work. He says the decision is ours, and was kind enough to refer us to children’s clinic right here in town. So at least I know that part is easy.
I’m not an uncaring mother. I do feel sorry for the little guy. I think he heard Ted and me talking about “it” the other night. I turned around and saw him standing on the bottom step in his pj’s with the little bear you gave him under his arm and his eyes were sort of wetting up.
Mom, the way he looked at me just broke my heart. But I honestly believe this is the best for all of us. It’s not fair to force him to live with a family that can’t give him the times and attention he deserves. And please don’t give me the kind of grief Grandma gave you over your abortions. It’s the same, you know.
We’ve told him he is just going in for a vaccination. Anyway, they say the whole termination procedure is painless.
I guess it’s just as well you haven’t seen that much of him.
Love to Dad,
Jane
This fictitious letter may seem extreme but the seeds of disintegration have already taken root in our Godless culture. Guard you own home and thinking. Remind yourself of what God thinks about your children. Cherish the moments you have with them. Don’t allow jobs or material desires to sidetrack your family.
Psalm 127:3 “Lo, children are an heritage of the LORD: and the fruit of the womb is his reward.”
Learn to see the value of your heirloom.
