Wonderfully Made

From the time Madison was born, we knew that she was wonderfully made and a blessing from God! Inside and out she continues to display this to us! However, at the time of her birth we noticed a minor difference between her ears. The top of her left ear was folded over. The doctor said that things like that happen in the womb and it should pop back over time. Of course, we didn't mind this about her, but her ear never popped back. For the past 6 1/2 years she and most others never even noticed, but we knew the day would come when another kid would notice and point out this difference to her. Well, it happened this week! A boy in Madison's class told her that it looked like the top of her ear was cut off by a doctor, and wanted to know what happened. She had no idea what he was talking about, so came home and asked us about it. Madison asked Brian, "Why are one of my ears up happy and the other one droops down sad?" Brian said, "God made you special and each of us different. One of my feet are bigger then the other. We just have to be thankful for how we were made and be thankful that all our parts work." Later when she arrived home, she walked over to me and asked, "Mommy, does this ear look like it droops down." I asked, "What do you think?" She said, "A little." I asked, "Does this bother you?" She said, "No, not really." I said, "Well, good. If it doesn't bother you, then you don't have to worry about it." So that night we discussed looking at what's on the inside of people and how if everyone was exactly the same how boring that would be. Thankfully, Madison already views others in this way, so other then learning something new about herself, this realization didn't seem to bother her too much!

It also helped that her memory verse from church last week was Psalm 139:14:

"I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well. "

Praise God for Madison!