World Down Syndrome Day

As most of you know, today is World Down Syndrome Day. It's funny how this day, 3/21, has come and gone for the past 27 years of my life, and I never gave this date a second thought. But today was so much different. As the day approached, I found myself feeling excited, like I did as a kid when Christmas or my birthday was approaching.

I talked to our local library about incorporating the subject of special needs into this week's story time, and I also made two posters about Down Syndrome for them to put out this week. I'm looking forward to Wednesday's story time.

I didn't know that this day would hold such meaning in my heart, but I guess it really should not have been a surprise. I love celebrating birthdays and special ocassions. And today felt like a birthday. Really, it is. It is the birth day of the day that my eyes were opened to a better world, a world with less judgement, a world with unconditional love and acceptance. That is the world that I was invited into almost 11 months ago. Not because that is how the world around has become, but because that is the world that Kamdyn's existence has created in our family.

There's a verse in Psalm 91:1
He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.

I feel like God has revealed a little of this secret to us over these last 11 months. Because if anyone is abiding under the shadow of the Almighty, Kamdyn is. I am honored and blessed everyday that God has chosen us to be a part of her life.

I know that people are relieved during their pregnancy when the doctor gives the "all clear" for Down Syndrome. And I know that people respond by saying, "Aren't we lucky" or "Aren't we blessed". And I get it. Trust me, I do, because I was there. I don't believe in luck. I believe in God, and that He has a plan that is bigger and better than mine. But if I believed in luck, I would say, along with thousands of others, "Aren't WE lucky." It's a little secret that most won't ever discover, and they don't even know what they are missing. Friends, we are lucky, 4 leaf clover, wish on a star kind of lucky. But more so we are blessed, showers of blessing, sunshine pouring down kind of blessed.