We just found out that my SIL's brother died. He was four years old, and the only son of my husband Gordon's ex-stepfather, Scott. The poor boy had a brain tumor that left him blind and deaf before he left this earth. Everyone says that he's in a better place now, and in no more pain.
I hate to say this, but those of you who believe in karma or judgment might say that the boy's father and mother had it coming to them. Scott is a cruel man who had mentally and physically abused Gordon, his mom and sister. It grew so intolerable that my MIL finally divorced him. Then he went on to marry another woman who is reportedly just as cruel and mean as he is. When they had their son, I was among the extended family members who worried about how they would treat him. It is possible that the boy couldn't take their negativity and decided on some level that it would be better to leave this earth instead.
I am so proud of my MIL, though. Last week she even called up Scott (they still don't have a good relationship to this day) to offer encouragement and sympathy, letting him know that she and her sister's church were all praying for his little boy. She said that he was pleasantly astonished at her good will.
I do feel guilty that I didn't pray enough for the boy. On the other hand, prayer with no faith would make no difference. Nevertheless, I do pray now that Scott and his family are comforted during this difficult time, and hopefully the show of goodwill from the people he used to treat badly will wake him up and he will change to become a better person.
badasianmom posted on Sep 20, 2008
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secretlife said on Sep 20, 2008....
i don't believe karma when it comes to payback for YOUR "sins" being extracted from an innocent- that's just bullshit.I'm sorry for the little boy- i'm sorry he had to suffer. -
killingme4u said on Sep 20, 2008....
sad story.and the poor kid.i hope the father will be a better person.i don't know what else to say.but hope you all hang in.... :) -
Twylarants said on Sep 20, 2008....
No karma or god would punish a human being by causing suffering and death. Disease, accident, natural disaster.....yes, these things can cause death.
It's a tragedy a little child had to suffer so.
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travelr712 said on Sep 20, 2008....
ooohh, i'm so sorry asia. what a hard thing to endure! i do understand what you mean about karma tho, really. it seems to me more likely that the spirit of those two people caused that tumor in their son, but i have no proof of that, only a feeling. maybe he is in a much better place than he would have been had he been forced to live with them for another 14+ years.my heart goes out to you asia. -
RollingC said on Sep 21, 2008....
Allow me to express my deepest sympathy. My prayers are with you.
Rc -
lionesss said on Sep 21, 2008....
no child should be abused in anyway, mentally of phyiscally, to think that poor little boy, having evil parent like that, this my sound harsh but every parent that abuses their child should have some kind of comupance, they didnt deserve a child, and the child is not suffering any more he is at peace,but my deepest sympathy to you,~~lionesss x -
travelr712 said on Sep 21, 2008....
well lioness, i kinda think maybe they did get their comupance, at least in some way, they lost their child, and that's devistating to parents, no matter how horrible they are. -
lionesss said on Sep 21, 2008....
,trav...I know that its devistating for any parent to loose a their child, and i wish it on no1 as a member of my family has lost a child and iv seen the effects it had on them as a family so no no parent should go through loosing a child, but parents that intentionally abuse their child is disgusting and there is no excuse for it at all, too many children are pushed aside and left to suffer in silence, as i was as a child~~lionesss x -
travelr712 said on Sep 21, 2008....
i agree with you 100% lioness. i think parents who abuse children should be strung up by their thubs on a tree with crows flying around in the middle of the desert and just left there to rot and be picked at. i guess i was just saying that i can find a small amount of solice in the fact that they are devistated by this. it's not enough by far, but at least they didn't get out of it unscathed, know what i mean? -
lionesss said on Sep 21, 2008....
trav... yes i do.:) ~lionesss x -
badasianmom said on Sep 21, 2008....
Thanks for all of your sympathies. At least the little boy is at peace now, and in loving arms. I do hope that his parents get a second chance to become much better parents than they have been.
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