Sweet Surprise – IOTW Report

Sweet Surprise

Can’t stop grinning.

h/t Ann Nonymous Prime

25 Comments on Sweet Surprise

  1. I apologize in advance that this will be a long post. My 19-year-old grandson is autistic, but brilliant. When he was small, I used to lament the fact he just couldn’t do things other kids did. I remember when he was 5, I took him to the park with a tricycle my husband and I bought him for his birthday. He couldn’t ride it. At the same time, another 5-year-old was zipping around on a small two-wheeler with no training wheels and I watched him with envy. “God, why did our boy have to be born with this condition?” I silently prayed. And then it hit me like the proverbial ton of bricks: God knew EXACTLY what he was doing. That other 5-year old? His mother was not married, was addicted to drugs and alcohol, and no one knew who the father was. If our sweet boy had been born into that family, he would never have had a chance. God gave this special child to us because He trusted us with him. All of those lovely children in the video are such special gifts God.

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  2. …I have a great-nephew who has Downs. My niece had him in her late 30s and it happens. Sweetest, most inquisitive kid you’ll ever meet, and hitting his developmental markers almost like a “normie”. That boy’s gonna set the world on fire in a good way, and have a big smile when he does it.

    I also have a niece on my wife’s side who has a Prader-Willi variant, which includes a genetic predisposition to obesity and intellectual challenges as well as an advanced progression towards blindness in her case. She’s also a high school graduate from a regular high school, lives by herself, manages her own diet to keep her weight under control even though her DNA itself is against it, and holds down a full-time regular job that she arranges her own transportation to, and is a highly productive, taxpaying citizen who’s well-liked by customers and fellow employees alike.

    Both of them have to work harder at life than you or I, and both of them have needed a little more support at times than you and I, and both of them face challenges that we don’t. Some of those challenges are medical, like my great nephew may need a shunt and isn’t it fun for my niece to contemplate pediatric brain surgery, but some of the challenge is that people look at them and dismiss them completely as human beings, because some of the markers are clear on their faces, and this activates the cruelty gene in many people who think that here is someone they can feel superior to.

    The more fool them.

    These children are from the Lord, filled with His worth and a test to see who will TRULY follow His word.

    “It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones.”
    Luke 17:2

    Don’t think for a minute that the Lord is testing THEM with this disability. The Lord has touched them and filled them with His love in double measure to compensate for their challenges.

    But no, he isn’t testing THEM.

    He’s testing YOU.

    “44 Then shall they also answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, or athirst, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not minister unto thee?

    45 Then shall he answer them, saying, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye did it not to one of the least of these, ye did it not to me.”
    Matthew 25:44-45

    God is in these children.

    Is he in YOU?

    …through them, he will surely find out…

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  3. Brown Eyed Girl
    OCTOBER 21, 2020 AT 7:52 PM

    “God gave this special child to us because He trusted us with him. All of those lovely children in the video are such special gifts God.”

    …it’s not my blog, but as a reader and a fellow long poster, I understand when the Spirit makes you write that it’s hard to keep it to 140 characters, and you have many blessed things to say, so from my point of view there is no need to apologize. And I think we are blessed with those who do run this blog being patient when we get carried away, and I thank them for their kind indulgence that I don’t think anyone has traded on more than I. I consider it a blessing I found such an understanding online home and do not take it for granted.

    And God bless you for recognizing His hand in placing your grandson with those best equipped by the Lord to love and care for him. God sometimes does challenge us and we don’t understand, but he truly doesn’t give us more burden than we can bear, and will help us bear it if we turn to Him to do so.

    I have many times documented here the challenges my wife and I faced together when the Lord surprised us with an “imperfect” son. He was born with a cleft lip and pallet for no genetic reason anyone could ever discover, and the ultrasounds of the day did not warn us, so it was truly a birthday surprise for all of us.

    We were blessed in our case that he had NO mental developmental challenges, but the corrective surgeries over his entire life and the way children treat the “different” one as he grew up gave him and us our own unique challenges, but nothing that the Lord didn’t equip us to deal with, in some cases decades in advance. I won’t repeat my previous 100 or so posts on this here, but the experience did make us closer as a family and drew us to the Lord for His help, and His grace carried us through DECADES of challenges to help produce the wonderful young man he is today. I didn’t always see it at the times when the road was hard, and in my foolishness and self-pity I too did sometimes rant at my Lord for burdening poor little me more than others, but in hindsight he was with us every step of the way, even when idiot me tried to push Him away, and today I can see that it was truly for the best and thank and praise Him for that even as I ask His help with the future.

    God blessed you with that young man to love, and blessed him with an intellect few have and a grandmother to love and understand him, and had her part in shaping the young man the Lord has gifted the world with and preparing him for the future.

    I’d say you both got a pretty good deal.

    May the Lord bless and keep you, reward you for your efforts, and let you live to see the amazing things the young man he charged you with will give to this world. And may the Lord hold His hand over that young man, ease his way in life, guide him to the destiny He would have him fulfill, and grant him the wisdom and empathy to recognize how truly blessed he was that the Lord placed him with people such as yourself who loved him enough to hold his hand along the way.

    And may the Lord bless you and yours with His blessed assurance that He will be there for you all, always, as he has been and ever shall be, and reward your efforts both here and in Heaven for meeting the challenge He set for you without shirking or shrinking from it.

    God Bless,
    SNS

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  4. MJA>
    Good vacation spot in the summer time. Take a cruise out from west Europe. Many speak English too. Wait till this covid crap is over with though. Everywhere is uptight now. Europe especially.

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