Not A Burden But A Blessing

Down syndrome is most certainly not a burden, but a blessing.  Whenever I hear people talk children & people with Down syndrome, I only hear positive things.  I hear about all of the great things they have accomplished that the doctors told them could never be done.  I have heard the amazing joy that is brought into peoples lives by a person with Down syndrome.  The different personality's & attitudes that they have. The love that they show, to me it is all amazing.

I have only heard that people with Down syndrome are a blessing.  Never a burden.  They are beautiful & unique.  All they want is what everyone else wants. To be excepted as they are for who they are.  Everyone is different, in one way or another we are all different.  Not one of us is alike.  So then why is it that children & people who are "Extra" special get made fun of & become outcasts?

Their almond shaped eyes, wider spaces between their fingers & toes make them unique.  They learn at their own pace as everyone else does.  Now I have no siblings with Down syndrome but God has blessed me, & opened my eyes so that I can see their full potential, & I wish show other what God has shown me.
While we are sitting in our nice warm houses, with all of our luxuries, these kids are wasting away in places where they are unwanted.

Where they are shown no loves, no affection.  They get no attention.  But instead become bedridden, they stop growing because they are malnourished.  All because they are "different" their lives are deemed as unworthy of life.  A question I have always asked my self is "Who is the person that gets to decide who is different & unworthy of life?"  Because whoever it is need to be put in the situation of the poor kids that are suffering.  All because we never think of other anymore.  It's all about me. Never about the children that are suffering & will die if they aren't rescued.

These children are special they are HUGE blessings.  They deserve a family, a house, a warm bed, more then we do.  They deserve so much more but yet are given so little.  If only people would take the time to see what they CAN do.  & stop putting everything they wish to do in life down.  They CAN & WILL fulfill their dreams.  They will get jobs. They will fall in love.  They will make a difference.  It will happen & nothing will stop them.  They are blessings....not...burdens.