Letters to Our Boys

Words We Never Wanted Left Unsaid

By Dr Michael Janse van Rensburg with Lynn Janse van Rensburg

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Letters to Our Boys — hardcover edition

Print ISBN 978-1-0483-1301-7 eBook ISBN 978-1-0483-1302-4

Coming Christmas 2026

Letters to Our Boys is the companion volume to Where Are You, God? My Wife Has Cancer — a quieter book, written closer to the heart of the family. Where the first memoir wrestles publicly with the questions of faith and suffering, this one turns inward, toward two sons who will grow up holding the weight of what their family carried.

The book gathers letters, fragments, and remembered conversations — small things, the kind that pass through a household and almost disappear: a song Lynn used to sing, the breakfast Daniel still asks for, the names she gave them, the prayers spoken in the dark, the things she wanted them to know about her own mother. It is not a book of advice. It is a book of presence.

For TJ and Daniel, and for anyone whose family is walking through a season the children should not have to remember on their own.

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