THE SPECIAL CHILD

The Child, yet unborn, spoke with the Father,
"Lord, how will I survive in the world?
I will not be like other children,
My walk may be slower,
My speech hard to understand,
I may look different.
What is to become of me?"

The Lord replied to the child,
"My precious one, have no fear,
I will give you exceptional parents,
They will love you because you are special,
not in spite of it.
Though your path through life will be difficult,
your reward will be greater,
You have been
blessed with a special ability to love,
and those whose lives you touch will
be blessed because you are special."

Author/Source Unknown

PARENTS AND CHILDREN

When a child is born it is unable to live even for a few days without the help of someone else. It is the parents who look after and nurse him. Parents have to provide all the essential care until the child becomes grown up and is in a position to live without the help of others.

The love of parents towards their children is beyond words, it is limitless. They do everything humanly possible to care for their children. They look after them, even going without proper sleep themselves, and they spend sleepless nights for the sake of their children. They nurse them, feed them, wash them, clean them and arrange for their comforts to the best of their ability.

Parents are willing to spend all their wealth and forgo their own comforts for the sake of their children. They spend lavishly on their children's education, their one and only purpose being to see their children prosper and live happily.

Their children's joy is their joy, their children's prosperity is their prosperity. If the child falls into any difficulty, his parents are also distressed and miserable. Limitless is the assistance and help which are rendered by parents to their children.