Blessed

Blessed- divinely or supremely favored; fortunate 

What does it mean to be blessed? I find myself feeling "blessed" from time to time. I have one of the moments where I look around at my beautiful home, my healthy son. my loving fiance', my generous family and in that moment I feel, "blessed". These feelings started to arise more after my son was born. Every single time I look at him I see an amazing blessing god has given to me. When I sit and nurse him I find myself staring as my body creates perfect food to nourish his body. I feel incredibly blessed to have someone here to help me take care of him; I am so lucky not to be alone in parenthood. This is blessed, right?

So today, when I stumbled across a blog by a new mother of a son with down syndrome I realized my definition of blessed was not 100 percent correct. Her story had me in tears and my definition of blessed was slipping away. It accumulated when I read her small bio where she refers to her son as having "Designer Genes". Wow! Could she have put it

anymore perfectly? If she doesn't already know it (which she does) she is blessed!

Jesus said,  

   Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted.

   Blessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy. 

   Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God. 

   Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God.

In our weakness, our suffering, our struggles and our sorrows god will/is blessing us!

My son, my family, my fiance' - these are all my blessings!  

My son would be no less a blessing if he had been born with a challenge, he would of just made us all stronger, which would be a blessing!