I found a beautiful post on Facebook and thought I would
share this. I am not sure who wrote it but in touched my heart and brought
tears.
Did you ever
wonder how the mothers of heart babies are chosen?
Somehow, I
visualize God hovering the earth, selecting his instruments for propagation with
great care and deliberation. As he observes, he instructs his angels to take
notes in a giant ledger.
Finally, he
passes a name to an angel and smiles. “Give her a heart baby.”
The angel is
curious. “Why this one God? She’s so happy.”
“Exactly,”
smiles God. “Could I give a heart baby a mother who knows no laughter? That
would be cruel.”
“But does
she have patience?” asks the angel.
“I don’t want
her to have too much patience, or she’ll drown in a sea of self-pity and
despair.
Once the
shock and resentment wear off, she’ll handle it.
I watched
her today. She has that sense of self and independence so rare and so necessary
in a mother.
“You see,
the child I am going to give her has a world of his own. She has to make him
live in her world, and that’s not going to be easy.”
God then
smiled. “This one is perfect. She has just the right amount of selfishness.”
The angel
gasps, “Selfishness!” Is that a virtue?”
God nods. “If
she can’t separate herself from the child occasionally, she will never survive.
Yes, here is a woman whom I will bless with a child less than perfect. She
doesn’t know 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 witness to a
miracle and know it.
I will permit her to see clear the things that
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 surly as she is here by my side.
Here is my precious gift sent from above Cole Anthony
