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A cold March wind danced around the dead of night in Dallas
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> as the doctor walked into the small hospital room of
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> Diana Blessing. She was still groggy from surgery.
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> Her husband, David, held her hand as they braced themselves
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> for the latest news.
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> That afternoon of March 10, 1991, complications had forced
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> Diana, only 24-weeks pregnant, to undergo an emergency
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> Cesarean to deliver couple's new daughter, Dana Lu Blessing.
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> At 12 inches long and weighing only one pound nine ounces,
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> they already knew she was perilously premature.
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> Still, the doctor's soft words dropped like bombs.
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> "I don't think she's going to make it," he said, as kindly
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> as he could.
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> "There's only a 10-percent chance she will live through the
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> night, and even then, if by some slim chance she does make
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> it, her future could be a very cruel one."
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> Numb with disbelief, David and Diana listened as the doctor
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> described the devastating problems Dana would likely face
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> if she survived.
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> She would never walk, she would never talk, she would
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> probably be blind, and she would certainly be prone to
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> other catastrophic conditions from cerebral palsy to
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> complete mental retardation, and on and on.
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> "No! No!" was all Diana could say.
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> She and David, with their 5-year-old son Dustin, had long
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> dreamed of the day they would have a daughter to become a
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> family of four. Now, within a matter of hours, that dream
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> was slipping away.
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> But as those first days passed, a new agony set in for
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> David and Diana.
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> Because Dana's underdeveloped nervous system was
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> essentially 'raw', the lightest kiss or caress only
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> intensified her discomfort, so they couldn't even cradle
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> their tiny baby girl against their chests to offer the
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> strength of their love. All they could do, as Dana
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> struggled alone beneath the ultraviolet light in the tangle
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> of tubes and wires, was to pray that God would stay close
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> to their precious little girl.
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> There was never a moment when Dana suddenly grew stronger.
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> But as the weeks went by, she did slowly gain an ounce of
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> weight here and an ounce of strength there.
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> At last, when Dana turned two months old, her parents were
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> able to hold her in their arms for the very first time. And
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> two months later, though doctors continued to gently but
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> grimly warn that her chances of surviving, much less living
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> any kind of normal life, were next to zero, Dana went home
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> from the hospital, just as her mother had predicted.
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> Five years later, when Dana was a petite but feisty young
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> girl with glittering gray eyes and an unquenchable zest for
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> life. She showed no signs whatsoever of any mental or
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> physical impairment. Simply, she was everything a little
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> girl can be and more. But that happy ending is far from the
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> end of her story.
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> One blistering afternoon in the summer of 1996 near her
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> home in Irving, Texas, Dana was sitting in her mother's lap
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> in the bleachers of a local ball park where her brother
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> Dustin's baseball team was practicing.
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> As always, Dana was chattering nonstop with her mother and
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> several other adults sitting nearby when she suddenly fell
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> silent
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> Hugging her arms across her chest, little Dana asked,
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> "Do you smell that?"
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> Smelling the air and detecting the approach of a
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> thunderstorm, Diana replied, "Yes, it smells like rain."
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> Dana closed her eyes and again asked, "Do you smell that?"
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> Once again, her mother replied,
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> "Yes, I think we're about to get wet. It smells like rain."
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> Still caught in the moment, Dana shook her head, patted her
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> thin shoulders with her small hands and loudly announced,
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> "No, it smells like Him.
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> It smells like God when you lay your head on His chest."
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> Tears blurred Diana's eyes as Dana happily hopped down to
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> play with the other children.
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> Before the rains came, her daughter's words confirmed what
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> Diana and all the members of the extended Blessing family
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> had known, at least in their hearts, all along.
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> During those long days and nights of her first two months
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> of her life, when her nerves were too sensitive for them to
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> touch her, God was holding Dana on His chest and it is His
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> loving scent that she remembers so well.
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> "I can do all things in Him who strengthens me."
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> This morning when the Lord opened a window to Heaven, He saw me, and
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> asked: "My child, what is your greatest wish for today?" I
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> "Lord please, take care of the person who is reading this message,
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> family and their special friends. They deserve it and I love them
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> much" The love of God is like the ocean, you can see its beginning,
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> its end.
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> ANGELS EXIST but some times, since they don't all have wings, we
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> FRIENDS.
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