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The smell of rain ( this is sad)
The smell of rain
At the end of this story, it gives you two options. I
think you will
figure
out what option I chose.

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 emergencyCesarean to
deliver couple's
new
daughter, Dana Lu Blessing.

At 12 inches long and weighing only one pound nine ounces,
they already
knew
she was perilously premature.
Still, the doctor's soft words dropp ed 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 dreamwas slipping away

But as those first days passed, a new agony set in for
David and Diana.
Because Dana's underdeveloped nervous system
wasessentially '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 silentHugging
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 r ain."

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
Diana and
all the
members of the extended Blessing familyhad 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.

You now have 1 of 2 choices. You can either pass this on
and let other
people catch the chills like you did or you can delete
this and act
like it
didn't touch your heart like it did mine.
IT'S YOUR CALL!

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

This morning when the Lord opened a window to Heaven, He
saw me, and
Heasked:
"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 and I love them
very much"
The
love of God is like the ocean, you can see its beginning,
but not its
end.
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This message works on the day you receive it. Let us see
if it is true.
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ANGELS EXIST but some times, since they don't all have
wings, we call
them
FRIENDS.
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Pass this on to your true friends. Something good will
happen to you at
11:00
in the morning; something that you have been waiting to
hear.
This is not a joke; someone will call you by phone or will
speak to you
about something that you were waiting to hear.