Life.........

I have been sickened today by many things.  THIS article is one of them that has just given me deep thoughts.  This family mentioned wins $50 MILLION dollars because they say if they were told that their little boy had a genetic defect, they would have aborted him. So they are going to raise their child knowing that he wasn't wanted??  They were willing to just "throw him away?"
Why did this touch me so?  Because of this:

This is our son Joseph.  He was born from a difficult pregnancy.  I was sick the WHOLE nine months.  I threw up, had phenegran and at the time of delivery, I gained 3 pounds TOTAL.  They took him, SAYING he was 38 weeks.  They used words like "growth retardation" and other scary words. They had us convinced that there was something wrong with our baby.  But we were willing to accept whatever the Lord gave us and blessed us with.  He was wanted.  He was named after my favorite uncle and my great grandfather, to fulfill a wish/promise to my Mammaw, who died a year before.  He was born and he was obviously premature.  He was PERFECT but little.  VERY little. Absolutely perfect....what was wrong?  The doctors had completely skewed my dates, and he was born at 34 1/2 weeks instead!  He was still 5 lbs 10 oz but he was perfect.

Today he's 18.  If we would have chosen the route that the doctors would have suggested, we would have missed out on the funniest, smartest and loving young man.  We would have missed out on such a tremendous blessing of a wonderful young man.  Now we are pro-life, so that wouldn't have been in consideration, but I can't imagine our lives without him.

From a spiritual side, I am thankful for a Jesus who loved us enough to come down and die for our sins.  I am thankful for a Jesus that loves me regardless of my issues.  I am thankful for a Jesus who loves me regardless of my defects.  I am thankful for a Jesus who doesn't just "throw me away" because I was born with a sinful nature & have "issues".  I am thankful for a Jesus, who takes me back into His arms when I screw up, when I fall and when I make mistakes. I am thankful for a God and my parents, who gave me life & breathed life into me.  I am thankful for that unconditional love.

What these parents don't realize is that NONE of us are perfect.  No one is....we ALL have our issues and the only perfect man was Jesus himself.  Regardless of what our issues are, we all have them.  I just wished they would see their baby as a blessing instead of a burden.......because you know what?  I am thankful that Jesus sees me as a blessing and His child and not a burden and that is the way he sees them & their baby too!