Favorite General Conference Talk
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
"Special Lessons"
by Elder Ronald A. Rasband
April 2012
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| Selma helping Joshua unwrap a present |
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| Little brothers were awesome to play with Joshua |
I love this talk given by the grandfather of a child born with special needs. He begins his talk as follows:
For the past 20 months, our family has been blessed with the privilege of having a very special baby.
Little Paxton, our grandson, was born with a very rare chromosomal deletion, a genetic disorder that distinguishes him, literally, as one in hundreds of millions. For our daughter and her husband, an uncharted, life-changing journey began when Paxton was born. This experience has become a crucible for learning special lessons tied to the eternities.
For the rest of the talk, please click on: https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2012/04/special-lessons?lang=eng
As he speaks of being "blessed" and eternal lessons, my heart is filled with gratitude for our own special lessons we learned for 22 years with Joshua, and even beyond his death. We experienced and learned pure love, sacrifice, friendship and friendliness, service, prayer, compassion, strength and especially charity and the love of our Savior for each one of us. Every day was a blessing with the various experiences, challenges, insights, sacrifice and love. This blog is a celebration of these very special lessons and this very wonderful journey.
I am thankful every day that I was blessed to be Joshua's Mom.
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