My daughter, Lyla, was diagnosed with Full Trisomy 18, a chromosomal abnormality also called Edward’s Syndrome, when she was three days old. My husband and I were given very little hope that Lyla would live past a few weeks old. But our God is a God of hope, and by His grace, Lyla is now 10 years old. She is healthy and thriving. We have chosen these to be her life verses…
Psalm 139:13-16
13 For you created my inmost being;
you knit me together in my mother’s womb.
14 I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;
your works are wonderful,
I know that full well.
15 My frame was not hidden from you
when I was made in the secret place,
when I was woven together in the depths of the earth.
16 Your eyes saw my unformed body;
all the days ordained for me were written in your book
before one of them came to be.
John 9:1-3
1 As he went along, he saw a man blind from birth. 2 His disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?”
3 “Neither this man nor his parents sinned,” said Jesus, “but this happened so that the works of God might be displayed in him.