A story about a little boy

I thought I would repost this since it is around Christmas time.

Two Christmas cards and a little boy.

Two weeks before Christmas, a mommy picked her children up from school - a little boy and girl. The little boy and girl was going to go shopping with their mommy. They went to a nearby store to get their Christmas cards made. On the Christmas card was a picture of the whole family.  There was Daddy, Mommy, little boy, and little girl. In the picture, everybody was smiling. Everybody was happy and joyous because of the season. It was the season when this family thanked God for each other’s life. This is something the little boy pondered on while mommy made the Christmas card.

“There’’ said mommy as she looked at the finished product.  She turned to the little boy and the little girl and showed them the picture. The little boy read the card to himself.  It said, “Merry Christmas and Happy New Year,  Love the Morgan’s”. For a while, the little boy stared at the picture on the card.  He saw mommy and daddy.  The little boy saw a man and woman, a husband and  wife. He saw a couple who had made a promise to each other.  Something caught his eye, his mommy’s arm was around his daddy.  Her arm was wrapped around the little girl, too.  Daddy’s arm was around the little boy and his wife.

But even in this picture the little boy seen something that nobody else could see.  He knew something that nobody but his family knew. Just before this picture was taken mommy and daddy had a big argument. This argument made the little boy and girl sad.  The little boy still felt comfort, knowing that no matter what the argument was about, that mommy and daddy loved each other.  The little boy thought that nothing could ever change that.

The little boy and girl and their mommy finished shopping. They headed home for the evening. The little boy’s daddy had to work late to provide for the family. His daddy didn’t make it home until late that night. The little boy and  girl waited up, because they wanted to put up their Christmas tree that night. They begged their daddy, “Daddy, may we please, please put up the Christmas tree tonight?”.  Daddy had worked hard all day long and he was tired but he gave in.  He helped the children put up the Christmas tree that night.

Well, weeks have passed since that day. The Morgans went to their families’ houses for Christmas.  They gave gifts.  They received gifts that were labeled “To the Morgan Family” or “To Mommy, Daddy and the Little Children”. 

The family enjoyed the many feasts that they shared during the holiday season.   That was all over now. The children were back in school.  Mommy worked more than she ever had.  Daddy was working from daybreak to sundown as normal. Things were starting to go wrong with the little boy’s and the little girl’s parents. They did not know what it was.  For some reason the children began to lose trust in their parents and even each other.

The children did not know what was wrong or what was making them lose trust in their parents.  And then one day mommy said that she was leaving daddy. She was moving. The little boy looked up at his daddy and kept thinking “Do something Daddy.  Stop mommy.  You said that whenever I am hurting that you would fix it. I am hurting daddy.  You said that we would always be together.  Do something Daddy.”  The little girl was thinking the same thing but she looked at her mommy thinking, “But you said - Mommy - you promised. Stop it, stop it, STOP IT!”.  The little boy and the little girl could no longer hold back the tears. They began to sob. The little boy went to his daddy for comfort and the little girl followed.

“I am so sorry children, but I am thinking of you,” said mommy. Then mommy said something that shocked the children, “Children go and back your bag you will be staying with me this week.”.  The horror that the little boy and the little girl dreaded had finally came.  Their parents were no longer - one.

From that day on, the little boy and  girl stayed at mommy’s house one week and then at daddy’s house the next week. They would go to church with mommy one week and then they would go to church with daddy the next.

It was just a few weeks before Christmas, mommy, the little boy and girl went to the store to make their Christmas card.  When the little boy read the finished product, he began to cry.  He felt a sense of loneliness as he read “Merry Christmas from Mommy, Little boy and Little girl.”.  The pictures on the card were of mommy, little boy and little girl.

When they finished with their shopping, the little boy and girl were taken to their daddy’s house.  Daddy showed the children the Christmas card that he had made. There was a picture of Daddy, Little boy and Little girl.  There was a message on the bottom of the Christmas card.  It said, “We hope that you will have a blessed Christmas, Love Daddy, Little boy and Little girl.”.  The little boy's eyes were full of tears, he missed the one Christmas card that the family had last year.  The one where everyone was smiling and happy and loved.  But now the little boy's face was on two Christmas cards -  his daddy’s and his mommy’s.

That Christmas, the children who once shared Christmas morning opening presents with mommy and daddy, now spent the morning with dad.  The Christmas evening, which was once the time when the family feasted together, was now spent opening presents with mommy. The children went with daddy to daddy’s family for Christmas and they went with mommy to mommy’s family for Christmas. The little boy passed out his daddy’s Christmas card and the little boy passed out his mommy’s Christmas card.

Years have gone by.  Now the little boy is a man and the little girl is now a woman. The man believed that he could give his children more than what he had, so he stayed committed to his wife until the day that she died. He loved and cared for his children.  He was content with his life and he taught his children trust, forgiveness and commitment.

But for the little girl turned into woman, she married and had a little boy. The woman left her home and took her little boy with her, because like her mother, she wanted to think of her child. So now this little boy has his face on two Christmas cards.

Grace