Powerful & Inspirational Video of Life
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Watch this powerful inspirational new video of life. This incredible story needs to be told and passed on. Life is beautiful. All of it. Watch this family tell their story of difficulty wrapped in glory. Tell everyone.
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- This is a Luke Elijah. He has hydrocephalus. We chose not to murder our son and chose life so we found out that we were pregnant with Luke when
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- Seth was two and We were so excited. We did an ultrasound and we found out that his cranial cavity
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- It just appeared empty. So what's wrong with Luke is that he he doesn't have a
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- The normal tube in the spinal cord that drains the fluid that's inside the brain so the brain kept swelling and swelling and swelling and so his head kept getting larger and larger and When he was a baby, it was the size of an adult head.
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- I remember seeing the ultrasound I remember like looking at it and just seeing black where you should normally see brain and I remember that we got transferred to a
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- Perinatologist and the perinatologist said that the likelihood of him surviving this pregnancy was low we were told that We were still within our rights to have an abortion at his gestational age, you know, just because our baby is sick doesn't mean that We're gonna have an abortion.
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- We knew that it was gonna be a hard road ahead and I read statistics that one out of Every 19 babies with Luke's diagnosis is murdered
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- I was just so sad that they wouldn't even give him a chance for life Well the fact that they were just ready to to immediately offer that as the the only option we were already
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- So strong in our faith that the road To the Lord and our on our knees was already paved and so when we came across this calamity, we were already set that we're obviously not gonna terminate the life of our child and Kill them we were strong in our faith and we were trusting the
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- Lord But I remember the first thing that when we had a private moment to talk John Said something special that I don't think
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- I'll ever forget. Yes and say we were it was at our other house We were in the bedroom together Just kind of taking in the news and I remember just putting my head on I'm always abdomen and just saying to Luke, you know, you have a home here
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- You know, that was precious to my heart to hear my husband say that he learned to hold up his head at 10 months he learned to crawl at 22 months and then he learned to walk at He's only been walking for a month now and that's it he's a
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- Three years six months. So the Lord has obviously been favorable to us
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- This is our son Luke Elijah, and he was born with hydrocephalus and when given the option to murder our son we chose life