Thanks for this post. I know this is premature since you haven't "weighed in" yet, but I wonder if you think this question will be answered differently depending on the nature of the disability. For instance, your mom wasn't born with dementia. It isn't an essential part of who she is. Dementia was a disease that happened to her. The same thing could probably be said of your daughter. A few more weeks in utero and she would have been a different person. But my friend Robyn was born with 47 chromosomes. She has Down Syndrome. I don't think there's a Robyn "in there" waiting to get out because who Robyn is is within what we call a disability. Do I think that in heaven her heart disease will cease ot exist? Yes. Do I think her eyes will look different or that she'll be "smarter"? No. In the same way I don't expect that I'll be a chess or calculus superstar in heaven. That's not who God made me to be.
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Thanks for this post. I know this is premature since you haven't "weighed in" yet, but I wonder if you think this question will be answered differently depending on the nature of the disability. For instance, your mom wasn't born with dementia. It isn't an essential part of who she is. Dementia was a disease that happened to her. The same thing could probably be said of your daughter. A few more weeks in utero and she would have been a different person. But my friend Robyn was born with 47 chromosomes. She has Down Syndrome. I don't think there's a Robyn "in there" waiting to get out because who Robyn is is within what we call a disability. Do I think that in heaven her heart disease will cease ot exist? Yes. Do I think her eyes will look different or that she'll be "smarter"? No. In the same way I don't expect that I'll be a chess or calculus superstar in heaven. That's not who God made me to be.