This is what I wrote last December, when Ace was a tiny baby in an ultrasound, a positive result on a chromosomal test:
“The good, hard gifts don’t usually come with explanation. They don’t come with instructions, or future promises of ease. And still they come and ask us to hold them, to say “Yes” along with Mary: to receive, not because we know what awaits us, but because we trust the goodness of the One who gives.”
dancing for an audience of One - 