A pastor received a call from a new father, which was not unusual. The father, however, went on to explain that he wanted the pastor to be present when the mother came out from under the anesthetic and would be told she had given birth to a beautiful baby boy - healthy in every way - but the newborn had no ears. When the pastor arrived, the nervous father and the doctor went into the room where the mother lay on her bed, now recovered after a hard birth. The doctor explained that the baby had auditory openings and all the inner ear parts necessary to receive sounds but no fleshy part outside that we commonly call the ear. The doctor assured the parents that the problem would be corrected when the child's growth was completed and a matching donor was found.
School was a touch experience for this little guy. He was too well-aware of the stares, whispers, taunts and nicknames given to him by the other kids. Junior High was the worst of his growing up experiences, but the young man began to adapt and learned to live with his disfigurement. He became an excellent student and entered college on a scholarship with plans to study geology. When he was a sophomore in college, his father phoned him and said, Son, we've finally found an ear donor for you. Plan to come home, because the operation will take place this summer. The operation came and went as a rousing success. This young man was so happy as he returned to college in the fall. His new ears were beautiful, and life took on new meaning for him.
He graduated with honors and his parents were so proud of him as he left to take a job in the Midwest. Life was great. Then a call came from his father who said, son, your mother has had a heart attack. Please come right home. The young man arrived on the next flight, only to learn his mother had died before his arrival. The next day at the funeral home, his father walked with him to the casket where she lay and pushed back his mother's hair to show the son....his mother didn't have any tears! She gave a part of herself to meet her son's need.
The love of God is greater even than this mother's love. God gave us more than ears.....He gave His Son!
~John 3:16~ "For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life".
by Robert Strand
Need I say more.......
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