Special needs?

My mother-in-law read this to me this morning and I thought it was so amazing and it made me think about things in a new light. It is from Next Door Savior by Max Lucado and I wanted to share it with you...

Alan and Penny Mcllroy have two adopted children which is commendable but not uncommon. The fact that they have adopted special needs children is significant but not unique. It's the severity of the health problems that sets this story apart.
Saleena is a cocaine baby. Her birth mother's overdose left Saleena unable to hear, see, speak, or move. Penny and Alan adopted her at seven weeks. The doctor gave her a year. She's lived for six.
As Penny introduced me to Saleena, she ruffled her hair and squeezed her cheeks, but Seleena didn't respond. She never does. Barring a miracle, she never will. Neither will her sister. "This is Destiny," Penny told me. In the adjacent bed one-year-old Destiny lay, motionless and vegetative. Penny will never hear Destiny's voice. Alan will never know Salena's kiss. They'll never hear their daughters sing in a choir, never see them walk across the stage. They'll bathe them, change them, adjust their feeding tubes, and rub their limp limbs, but barring God's intervention, this mom and dad will never hear more than we heard that afternoon--gurgled breathing. "I need to suction Saleena's nose," Penny said to me. "You might want to leave."
I did, and as I did, I wondered, what kind of love is this? What kind of love adopts disaster? What kind of love looks into the face of children, knowing full well the weight of their calamity, and says, "I'll take them"? (Destiny has since gone to heaven.)
When you come up with a word for such a love, give it to Christ. For the day He left Nazareth is the day He declared His devotion for you and me.
We were just as helpless, in a spiritually vegetative state from sin. According to Peter, our lives were "dead-end, empty-headed" (1 Peter 1:18 MSG). But God, "who is rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, even when we were dead in trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved)" (Ephesians 2:4,5)
Jesus left Nazareth in pursuit of the spiritual Saleenas and Destinys of the world and brought us to life.

This just brings tears to my eyes.

When we were filling out our adoption paperwork we struggled with what special needs we would accept. In the end our homestudy lists some MINOR CORRECTABLE special needs that we are willing to take.

Aren't we so glad that God didn't pick and choose what he was willing to take? What boxes he would mark? He died for us all, no matter what we looked like or how broken we were.

That is just how AMAZING our God is!! I cannot even begin to fathom the depths of his love for each one of us. It runs far deeper than my little mind can imagine.

Thank you Lord!! Thank you for sending your son to die on the cross for me, my family and friends, and each one reading this right now. May we live lives worthy of you and may we never forget the sacrifice that you made.

Thank you for loving us and giving us LIFE!!!