How God Chooses Mother's of Handicapped Children

Most women become mothers by accident, some by choice, a few by social pressures, and a couple by habit. This year, nearly 100,000 women will become mothers of handicapped children. Did you ever wonder how mothers of handicapped children are chosen? Somehow I visualize God hovering over Earth selecting his instruments for propagation with great care and deliberation. As he observes, he instructs his angels to make notes in a giant ledger.

"Armstrong, Beth; son; patron saint, Matthew.

"Forrest, Marjorie; daughter; patron saint, Cecelia.

"Rudledge, Carrie; twins; patron saint.... give her Gerard. He's used to profanity."

Finally, he passes a name to an angel and smiles, "Give her a handicapped child."

The angel is curious. "Why this one, God? She's so happy."

"Exactly," smiles God. "Could I give a handicapped child a mother who does not know laughter? That would be cruel."

"But has she patience?" asks the angel.

"I don't want her to have too much patience or she will drown in a sea of self-pity and despair. Once the shock and resentment wears off, she'll handle it. I watched her today. She has that feeling of self and independance. She'll have to teach the child to live in her world and that's not going to be easy."

"But, Lord, I don't think she even believes in you."

God smiles. "No matter. I can fix that. This one is perfect. She has just enough selfishness."

The angel gasps, "Selfishness? Is that a virtue?"

God nods. "If she can't seperate herself from the child occasionally, she'll never survive. Yes, there is a woman I will bless with a child less then perfect. She doesn't realize it yet, but she is to be envied. She will never take for granted a 'spoken word.' She will never consider a 'step' ordinary. When her child says 'Momma' for the first time, she will be present at a miracle and know it! When she describes a tree or a sunset to her blind child, she will see it as few people ever see my creations.

"I will permit her to see clearly the things I see --- ignorance, cruelty, prejudice --- and allow her to rise above them. She will never be alone. I will be at her side every minute of every day of her life because she is doing my work as surely as she is here by my side."

"And what about her patron saint?" asks the angel, his pen poised in midair.

God smiles. "A mirror will suffice."


This was written by Erma Bombeck

A New Grandbaby

My new grandbaby is here. He was born July 15th and weighed 5 lbs and 12 ozs. He is so sweet. But here is a quick look at him.

Today is my Birthday!

I have been hoping that my baby girl would have my grandson today. She is due any day now, but no such luck on sharing his Nanna's birthday.

I have not been on wow in a couple of days. I have been sick. Also, I have been working on my graphics for my scrapping blog and shop. I hope tonight I can get back to the game.

I bought myself a birthday present, some extra memory for my laptop, and hubby installed that for me. Maybe just maybe my game will run faster for me.

Other than Scrapping...

Aside from my scrapping and in Wow, I have now gotten my little gnome mage to level 41. She is so much fun to play. I have chosen to go frost spec and my best friend in wow has gotten his mage to level 41 too and has gone fire spec. Together we can freeze them in place and burn them down so to speak. I got my mount for her, I went with Darnassus rep and a cat. I just can't get into the noisy, clanking chicken to ride around on! We really have alot of fun questing with these guys. We have alot to learn and I haven't spent as much time reading blogs about mages (I really need to do that!). I hardly ever play my hunter anymore. She is just languishing waiting for the new expansion and level 80. Maybe by the time the expansion arrives I will have two characters to get to level 80. Here's hoping!

I have a new blog!

I have become addicted to digital scrapbooking lately and this has cut into my Wow time quite a bit! But, I love making graphics so along with my oldest daughter we have started making kits for digital scrapbookers to use in their own scrapbook pages. These items are for digital use but may also be printed for scrapbooking purposes as well. We offer premade kits, elements and much more. We also have a few freebies.


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