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Be Not Afraid The Childlike spirit“Because,” was the short but emphatic answer. Andthen, while we were still trying to grasp it, he repeated,“Please, laugh!”Then we said, “Good-bye, Mark John,” and he said,“Bye-bye.” We told him we would see him again soon,because for him in eternity it will be very soon. Then helifted both his arms and stretched them up and pointedwith both fingers toward heaven, and his eyes lookedand saw – his blind eyes that couldn’t see any longeron this earth, but already saw beyond our world – andcalled out, “Not two! One!” He repeated this two or threetimes. “Not two! One!” He saw two angels coming tofetch him, and we had always told him only about one.Then he turned toward his mother and said distinctlyand tenderly, “Mommy, Mommy.” Then he said “Papa,Papa.” It was as if he wanted to unite us very closely.And then, in that dear and characteristic way of his,nodding his head, he said, “Mark John, Mark John.” Itwas as if he had heard Jesus calling his name, and wasrepeating it. We had never heard him say his own namelike that before. We bent over him, and then two moretimes he lifted up his arms and pointed to heaven withthose thin arms that had been too weak even to lift a cupto his mouth for days.Then, fighting for breath, he called out, “Mommy,Mommy, Mommy, Mommy.” Ellen talked to him softlyand reassuringly…He was still breathing heavily but we