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So I wanna tell you an incredible story. In March my daughter and son in law told us they were pregnant. We were over the moon. First grandchild. In June they discovered their baby boy had Down Syndrome. Our family’s process was: grief then acceptance edging toward hopefulness.
Then one night in August I had a dream. Without fully giving you the details, I had a supernatural experience where God filled my heart mind and body with an ecstatic joy and love for my coming grandson. I woke up and the presence of God was in my bedroom and I wept with joy.
Yesterday we met him for the first time. His name is Otis King and he has Down Syndrome. When we each began holding him and kissing him and looking into his eyes speaking to him an incredible tangible heavenly love began to fill us. I am not being hyperbolic or sentimental.
Every member of our family was overtaken by a love we had never experienced before. As I was holding him my heart was expanding. I wasn’t afraid anymore of his limitations. He was perfect in my eyes and in my heart. This is very interesting to me because when we...
first heard his diagnosis I called a friend to process my sadness. I remember saying through a veil of tears “Love forces us to go where we would not otherwise choose to go” but I was saying it like “welp I guess life is just hard and this is what we have to do”...
And now I AM TELLING YOU AND I AM FULLY PERSUADED that the things that we think are difficult (and they may be) are NO MATCH FOR THE GLORY OF LOVE. Tonight as we were making our evening tea my wife referred to me as “Grandad” and my heart burst out of my chest. God is good. Selah
