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SHANGRALA'S

MIRACLE BABY!

Here for your inspiration, is an incredible TRUE story of one family's hope,
determination, faith, and steadfast trust in God through Jesus Christ. Enjoy :)

SMELLS LIKE RAIN

A cold March wind danced around the dead of night in Dallas
as the doctor walked into the small hospital room of Diana
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
forced Diana, only 24-weeks pregnant, to undergo an emergency
Cesarean to deliver their new daughter, Dana Lu Blessing.

Weighing only one pound nine ounces, they
already knew she was perilously premature.

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 make it, her future could be a very cruel one"

Numb with disbelief, David and Diana listened as the doctor described
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 to
other catastrophic conditions from cerebral palsy to
complete mental retardation, and on and on.

"No! No!" was all Diana could say.

She and David, with their 5-year-old son Dustin, had long dreamed
of the day they would have a daughter to become a family of four.

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 was essentially
'raw', the lightest kiss or caress only intensified her discomfort,
so they couldn't even cradle their tiny baby girl against their
chests to offer the strength of their love.

All they could do, as Dana struggled alone beneath the ultraviolet
light in the tangle of tubes and wires, was to pray that God would
stay close to their precious little girl.

There was never a moment when Dana suddenly grew stronger.

But as the weeks went by, she did slowly gain an
ounce of 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.

And two months later, though doctors continued to gently but
grimly warn that her chances of surviving, much less living
any kind of normal life, were next to zero, Dana went home
from the hospital, just as her mother had predicted.

Five years later, when Dana was a petite but feisty young girl
with glittering gray eyes and an unquenchable zest for life.

She showed no signs whatsoever of any mental or 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 her home in Irving,
Texas, Dana was sitting in her mother's lap in the bleachers of a local
ball park where her brother Dustin's baseball team was practicing. As
always, Dana was chattering nonstop with her mother and several other
adults sitting nearby when she suddenly fell silent. Hugging her arms
across her chest, little Dana asked, "Do you smell that?"

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?"

Once again, her mother replied, "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."

'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 she and all the members of the extended
Blessing family had 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 to touch her, God was holding Dana
on His chest and it is His loving scent that she remembers so well.

"I can do all things in Him who strengthens me."

This morning when the Lord opened a window to Heaven, He saw
me, and asked: "My child, what is your greatest wish for today?"

I responded: "Lord please, take care of the person who is reading
this message, their family and their special friends. They deserve it."

The love of God is like the ocean,
you can see its beginning, but not its end.

Pass this on to your loved ones and Let God Bless them.

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