"God's Grace Flowing Down From Heaven Above" by Betty Jones

My story is one that tells the hope and future that God has given to me. My husband & I were college sweethearts. We married when we were 20, and decided to wait 5 years to have children. In our 5th year of marriage I went into respiratory distress. My lips, and fingernails turned black, and my eyes were bloodshot and bulging. At one point my husband was told to call the family together that I had less than 20 minutes to live. Instead he called upon God. Within 20 minutes I had done a 180 degree turn. I was told I could never have children. I had acute asthma. My lungs could never sustain childbirth. Even if I did get pregnant the large number of steroids that I would have to take for the rest of my life would most likely cause severe birth defects. We were crushed. I remember the pain of seeing others have children, and thinking how unfair it was. Why were they so blessed? I remember the countless nights crying out to God for a child. Over the next 2 years God slowly began t