She was a cleft palate who required 3 surgeries to correct, made it through 4 years of speech therapy, and graduated cum laude from her art college. She is a talented painter, a committed Christian, donates to keep an overseas child fed, and is engaged to a really wonderful young guy who is also a Christian and a painter.
I often think about how partial birth abortions are done because of cleft palate, and it makes me sick.
For those who are fearful of this birth defect, plastic surgeons have perfected this repair surgery and do a great job in making these children look great. My daughter is beautiful, and turns heads when she appears. She is getting married next month, and I am grateful to God that she will be walking down the aisle on her father's arm.
God only sends us burdens we can bear, and this burden we were given 25 years ago has become the greatest blessing my husband and I could have been given.