I have a 9 month old grandson who was born with a partial extra chromosome 13. As a result, he will see only light and dark with his left eye, and have only peripheral vision in the left. He is already quite developmentally delayed, and will have some degree of mental handicap, hopefully mild, but we will not know for some years.
Many of my friends have place him on their prayer lists, for which I am very grateful, however, I have a fundamental question.
This type of birth defect I understand occurs about 1 in 1600 live births, so there are many children afflicted througout the world, with this and other conditions. We live in the most privileged society, where there are many resources for him, where his parents have a good income, in short he is very fortunate.
If this is a just God, and we are just people, where do we get off asking Him for special consideration for our grandson when he is already much bettter off than 70% of the similar children living in the slums of Mexico, Bombay, Africa etc?
Many of my friends have place him on their prayer lists, for which I am very grateful, however, I have a fundamental question.
This type of birth defect I understand occurs about 1 in 1600 live births, so there are many children afflicted througout the world, with this and other conditions. We live in the most privileged society, where there are many resources for him, where his parents have a good income, in short he is very fortunate.
If this is a just God, and we are just people, where do we get off asking Him for special consideration for our grandson when he is already much bettter off than 70% of the similar children living in the slums of Mexico, Bombay, Africa etc?