Perspectives

We are still traveling on the Amtrak Train. Just stopped in Albequrque, New Mexico and were able to get off the train for awhile to walk around. We arrive in California tomorrow morning.

Today, I wrote down some thoughts on Perspectives, I trust you will read them.

Perspectives

While sitting in the Amtrak train station in Chicago recently, I observed some interesting things as we were waiting to board our train.

There were two young couples with a little toddler daughter each. They were doting parents and so proud of their own little girls as the daughters toddled around the train station making new friends of anyone they came in contact with. The little girls were making the usual giggles and noises of a toddler. Everyone was making over these two little ones much to the parent’s enjoyment.

Over in the corner sat a set of older parents. They, too, had a daughter but no one was making over her. She, too, was making the sounds of a young child but not in a sweet way but an “annoying” way, almost a painful way. This daughter still had the same needs as the other toddlers, but was actually much older as you could tell by her face. She did not toddle around the station but instead was in a wheelchair, with devices to keep her fingers from curling and a device in her mouth for keeping her from biting or maybe even swallowing her tongue. Her parents had to feed her, dress her and straighten her up in the chair. No one was making over her.

So a tale of 3 Mothers. All of them had a Mother’s heart for their child. Which was greater, you ask? Oh I am sure they were equal in their love, but I cannot help but feel the heart for the handicapped daughter was a special gift from God. It takes a special love to sit in an obscure corner, loving and caring for a child that no one is making over, in fact, that most people are overlooking. And yet, I am sure that lined up together, those three mothers would proudly declare, “This is MY daughter!!!

God chooses special people for special tasks!!!