At the end of this story, it gives you two options. I think you
will figure out what option I chose.
A cold March wind danced around the dead of night in Dallas
as the doctor walked into the small hospital room of Diana
Blessing. She was still groggy from surgery.
Her husband, David, held her
hand as they braced themselves
for the latest news. That
afternoon of March 10, 1991,
complications had forced Diana,
only 24-weeks pregnant, to
undergo an emergency Cesarean
to deliver couple's new daughter, Dana Lu Blessing.
At 12 inches long and weighing only one pound nine
ounces, they already knew she was perilously
premature...
Still, the doctor's soft words dropped like bombs.
'I don't think she's going to make it,' he said, as
kindly as he could.
"There's only a 10%
chance she will live
through the night,
and even then, if by
some slim chance
she does make it,
her future could be
a very cruel one'
Numb with disbelief, David and Diana listened
as the doctor described the devastating
problems Dana would likely face if she survived.
She would never walk, she would never talk, she
would probably be blind, and she would certainly be
prone to other catastrophic conditions from cerebral
palsy to complete mental retardation, and on and on.
'No! No!' was all Diana could say.
She and David ,
with their 5-
year-old son
Dustin, had long
dreamed of the
day they would
have a daughter
to become a
family of four.
Now, within a matter of hours, that dream was
slipping away
But as those first days passed, a new agony set in for
David and Diana. Because Dana 's underdeveloped
nervous system was essentially 'raw', the lightest
kiss or caress only intensified her discomfort, so they
couldn't even cradle their tiny baby girl against their
chests to offer the strength of their love.
All they could do, as Dana struggled alone
beneath the ultraviolet light in the tangle of
tubes and wires, was to pray that God would
stay close to their precious little girl.
There was never a moment when Dana
suddenly grew stronger.
But as the weeks went by, she did slowly gain an ounce
of weight here and an ounce of strength there.
At last, when Dana
turned two months
old, her parents
were able to hold
her in their arms
for the very first
time.
And two months later, though doctors continued to
gently but grimly warn that her chances of surviving,
much less living any kind of normal life, were next to
zero, Dana went home from the hospital, just as her
mother had predicted.
Five years later, when Dana was a petite but
feisty young girl with glittering gray eyes and
an unquenchable zest for life.
She showed no signs
whatsoever of any
mental or physical
impairment. Simply,
she was everything
a little girl can be
and more. But that
happy ending is far
from the end of her
story.
One blistering afternoon in the summer of 1996 near her
home in Irving, Texas, Dana was sitting in her mother's
lap in the bleachers of a local ball park where her brother
Dustin's baseball team was practicing.
As always, Dana was chattering nonstop with her
mother and several other adults sitting nearby,
when she suddenly fell silent .
Hugging her arms across her chest, little
Hugging her arms across her chest, little
Dana asked, 'Do you smell that?'
Smelling the air and detecting
the approach of a thunderstorm,
Diana replied, 'Yes, it smells like
rain.'
Dana closed her eyes and
again asked, 'Do you smell that?'
Once again, her mother replied, 'Yes, I think we're
about to get wet. It smells like rain.'
Still caught in the moment, Dana shook her head,
patted her thin shoulders with her small hands
and loudly announced, 'No, it smells like Him.
It smells like God when you lay your head on His chest.'
Tears blurred Diana's eyes as Dana happily
hopped down to play with the other children.
Before the rains came,
her daughter's words
confirmed what Diana
and all the members
of the extended
Blessing family had
known, at least in
their hearts, all along.
During those long
days and nights
of her first two
months of her life,
when her nerves
were too sensitive
for them to touch
her, God was
holding Dana on
His chest and it
is His loving scent
that she remembers
so well.
You now have 1 of 2 choices.
You can either pass this on and let other people catch
the chills like you did or you can delete this and act
like it didn't touch your heart like it did mine.
It's your call!
'I can do all things in Him who strengthens me.'
This morning when the Lord opened a window
to Heaven, He saw me, and He asked:
'My child, what is your greatest wish for today?'
I responded: 'Lord please, take care of the
person who is reading this message, their
family and their special friends. They
deserve it and I love them very much'
The love of God is like the ocean, you
can see its beginning, but not its end..
______________________
This message works on
the day you receive it.
Let us see if it is true.
______________________
Angels Exist but some times,
since they don't all have wings,
we call them Friends.
______________________
Please pass this on to your true
friends. Something good will
happen to you at 11:00 in the
morning; something that you
have been waiting to hear.
This is not a joke; someone will
call you by phone or will speak
to you about something that
you were waiting to hear.
Please do not break this prayer;
send it to a minimum of 5 people.
______________________________
* contributed by an email sent to me from
my amazing aunt Rivereyes
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