Want to have something to cry about?

Not because it's bad, but because it's so beautiful.

http://enjoyingthesmallthings.blogspot.com/2010/01/

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I cried not because she had a DS baby. That was her blessing. 

I cried because God met her needs. He gave her the grace to see that her baby 
was perfectly perfect and tailored for her. He knew her frailty and did not 
condemn her for it. Instead, He provided an abundance of love and support 
so that she could not help but see and feel that her baby was a blessing. 
What touched me were the responses of her father 

and sister. They didn't sympathize with her. 
They didn't feel sorry for her. Those words 

would have been totally wrong and inappropriate. 
Instead, they gave her love. 

Their acceptance of the baby helped her. 

It would be easy to criticize her for her sadness and 
rejection of her DS baby. 

God met her in her hour of need. God always does.

I'm so glad she didn't know beforehand. 
That she didn't have months and months 

of having to deal with the fact that her baby was not what she had anticipated. 

Instead, she just had to love her baby. And she received healing for her 
imperfect heart. It wasn't the baby's imperfections that was so sad, 
but our individual sinful hearts that 

God needs to mend. 

But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty;   And base things of the world, and things which are despised, hath God chosen, yea, and things which are not, to bring to nought things that are: That no flesh should glory in his presence.  I Corinthians 1:27-29