If you have any reason to wonder why this message is important, maybe this letter will show you better than I could tell you. About four years ago I got a letter from a little girl in Macon, Georgia. Here's what she wrote me:

Dear Dr. Merritt,

Hello! I was just wondering can you help me? My Mother wants to move to Sweden. I am supposed to go, but I don't trust her. She says I'll come back. I don't know. My Daddy lives here, Georgia, USA. He's American. He is not going. What should I do? If I say Sweden, my Daddy will think I don't love him. I love my American family a lot. If I say USA, my Swedish family will be upset. I love them both the same. Please tell me what I can do besides pray and hope? May He bless you.

No child should ever have to face that decision, and yet more and more ch…