The Very Lonely Suit

Written for children with terminal illness, and their loved ones, Netty, the author of "The Very Lonely Suit," wishes her poem to be a light of hope, inspiration, and comfort to the reader and anyone who hears it-from patients to hospital staff to visitors.

It opens with Johnny in his best suit, fit to deliver a pair of rings on a satin pillow to the waiting bride and groom. After much celebration and cake, the little suit needs a cleaning. A trip through the dry cleaning machines renders the suit good as new, but no one returns to claim it. Johnny outgrows the lonely suit, and his mother gives it to another little boy, who's facing a very different life event.

This time around, the suit dresses its boy up for a ceremony, in which he comes face-to-face with the King of kings. The angels welcome the little boy into his new, eternal life, free of pain and suffering, and full of celebration.

The message is a clear and comforting reminder that God's grace and promise of eternal rejoicing in Heaven lessens the sting of our loved one's passing on from their time on Earth.