Posted on 11/28/2008 5:46:01 AM PST by Caleb1411
What a beautiful story for a beautiful little girl. God bless this family and all the others. We have a grandson with some Autism, and when I look at his beautiful little face, he is a perfect and precious as our other grandsons.
I don’t know what to say to this, I am acquainted with one individual who suffers from this but I am not too familiar with down syndrome. Good article.
I am glad she came to terms with it in whatever way. But articles like this of self centered people’s first reactions to their ‘not what we expected’ children are pretty darn revolting. The way she thought her child was an abomination until she read differently in a book... ug, turns my stomach.
When I see a Downe’s Syndrome child, I see innocense and sweetness, and sometimes I wish we were all more childlike.
I know they are normal in that they need training and discipline.
But mostly, I think on myself, my willful sin and rebellion, and that makes me think on God and His grace and mercy.
We are all broken by sin and the fall. In God’s eyes we are in the same condition as these “imperfect” ones.
I am thankful He loves us just the way we are. Jesus died, not for the perfect, but for sinful men.
You do realize that this is how the majority of Americans thought decades ago - at a time when we were supposedly more "religious?" How many children with Downs Syndrome were raised by their parents in the home 75 years ago? Many were warehoused.
There's nothing new under the sun, you know.
Having gone through the same thing myself (giving birth to a Down Syndrome baby) 39 years ago, I can tell you that it comes as a shock to the system. In my case, I had already had a very hard pregnancy and knew that something wasn’t right all along, but I just didn’t know what. A person is just in shock right at first and feels suddenly separated completely from so-called “normal” people. It takes a while and a lot of different emotions and thoughts before wisdom sets in.
That baby (Michael) had other birth defects internally that caused a need for surgery six weeks later, and he passed away in the recovery room afterwards. - I see so many, mostly young, people who have so far led charmed lives and haven’t faced anything difficult in life who seem almost arrogant toward anyone that doesn’t fit the “image” of “beautiful people”. - That experience, among others in my life, humbled me (a once vain person) and for that, I am grateful and thank God.
Last evening, I saw a middle aged man with Down Syndrome at the restaurant where my husband and I enjoyed Thanksgiving dinner, and who I saw was just a man also enjoying a wonderful, bountiful Thanksgiving meal with his family. - I once again saw more clearly the human condition and also saw that we’re all a part of it with all our varying imperfections and illnesses whether evident or internal and concealed.
This is true OF EVERYONE. This is what needs needs NEEDS to be remembered of ALL human beings NO MATTER WHAT CIRCUMSTANCE IN THEIR LIVES.
I wholeheartedly believe that we are afforded a small taste of what that is like -- that glimpse into the Face of Our Father -- when we look in to the eyes of a newborn. All children are perfect in the eyes of God -- even those considered defective by a bankrupt society/culture.
After all, they were just with Him.
I’ve worked with Down Syndrome kids. Amazingly sweet children. Always just want to give you a hug.
I’ve worked with Down Syndrome kids. Amazingly sweet children. Always just want to give you a hug.
Gloria was almost two months premature; she weighed 1 lb. 14 oz. at birth. She spent over 3 months in the preemie ICU before her weight increased to 5 lbs. and they let her come home.
None of the doctors - the OBGYN, Gloria's pediatrician, nobody - told my parents that she had DS, although the doctors knew it. I am not blaming them; I believe it was due to the fact that Gloria was so frail and sickly, they honestly did not think that she would survive past her first birthday, so they didn't see the need to burden my parents with the knowledge.
Shortly after she turned 1, my mom, Gloria and I were grocery shopping. A casual acquaintance of my mom's was at the store; she saw Gloria and said to my mother, "Oh, you have a little mongoloid there!"
I was eight years old at the time, but I will never forget it. I thought my mom was going to faint. She went straight home and called the pediatrician and asked him "Why didn't you tell me?" She never divulged to me what his response was.
But I repeat, I honestly don't blame hte medical profession for not giving us the information. I believe they were acting as they thought best at the time.
Different times, different philosophies.
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Great article.
So you find it revolting that God sent her a child that taught her to open up her heart and be transformed?
None of us are perfect, and we are all self centered to some degree, and it’s wonderful when we can overcome our deficiencies due to whatever circumstance God sends us to help us grow in His divine wisdom and love.
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