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Hello,
A dear friend of mine sent me this email...it made me cry tears of joy...Hope this encourages "everyone" amen!
March wind danced around the dead of night in Dallasas the doctor walked into the small hospital room ofDiana 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 forcedDiana, only 24-weeks pregnant, to undergo an emergencyCesarean to deliver couple's new daughter, Dana Lu Blessing.
[FONT=A=][FONT=A=]At 12 inches long and weighing only one pound nine ounces,[/FONT]they already knew she was perilously premature.[COLOR=black"]
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-percent chance she will live through the night, and even then, if by some slim chance she does makeit, her future could be a very cruel one"
Numb with disbelief, David and Diana listened as the doctordescribed 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 toother catastrophic conditions from cerebral palsy tocomplete mental retardation, and on and on.
All they could do, as Diana
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At last, when Dana turned two months old. her parents were able to hold her in their arms for the very first time.
Two months later, though doctors continued to gently butgrimly warn that her chances of surviving, much less living any kind of normal life, were next to zero, Dana went homefrom the hospital, just as her mother had predicted.
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A dear friend of mine sent me this email...it made me cry tears of joy...Hope this encourages "everyone" amen!
March wind danced around the dead of night in Dallasas the doctor walked into the small hospital room ofDiana 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 forcedDiana, only 24-weeks pregnant, to undergo an emergencyCesarean to deliver couple's new daughter, Dana Lu Blessing.
[FONT=A=][FONT=A=]At 12 inches long and weighing only one pound nine ounces,[/FONT]they already knew she was perilously premature.[COLOR=black"]
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-percent chance she will live through the night, and even then, if by some slim chance she does makeit, her future could be a very cruel one"
Numb with disbelief, David and Diana listened as the doctordescribed 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 toother catastrophic conditions from cerebral palsy tocomplete mental retardation, and on and on.
"No! No!" was all Diana could say.
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 wasessentially 'raw', the lightest kiss or caress onlyintensified her discomfort, so they couldn't even cradletheir tiny baby girl against their chests to offer thestrength of their love.
All they could do, as Diana
struggled alone beneath the ultraviolet light in the tangleof tubes and wires, was to pray that God would stay closeto their precious little girl.
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[FONT=Ar=]There was never a moment when Dana suddenly grew stronger.[/FONT]
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[FONT==Arial][FONT==Arial][FONT==Arial]But as the weeks went by, she did slowly gain an ounce of[/FONT]
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[/FONT]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.
Two months later, though doctors continued to gently butgrimly warn that her chances of surviving, much less living any kind of normal life, were next to zero, Dana went homefrom the hospital, just as her mother had predicted.
Five years later, when Dana was a petite but feisty younggirl with glittering gray eyes and an unquenchable zest forlife. She had no
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 herhome in Irving , Texas , Dana was sitting in her mother's lapin the bleachers of a local ball park where her brotherDustin's baseball team was practicing.
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 herhome in Irving , Texas , Dana was sitting in her mother's lapin the bleachers of a local ball park where her brotherDustin's baseball team was practicing.
As always, Dana was chattering non stop with her mother and
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several other adults sitting nearby when she suddenly fellsilent.Hugging her arms across her chest, little Dana asked,"Do you smell that?"
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[FONT==Arial]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?"
[FONT==Arial][FONT==Arial]Once again, her mother replied,
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[/FONT]"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.
[/FONT]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 familyhad 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 totouch her, God was holding Dana on His chest and it is Hisloving scent that she remembers so well.
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[COLOR=#0b00e]Isn't that awesome!!![/COLOR]
[COLOR=#0b00e]In His love for Us All, your sister, hannah 
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