Most people think that God's work of creation is finished. The seven days He created the universe and everything in it must have ended but every minute a new life comes forth. They are I would say all God's creation - and they are all perfect. Maybe you'll ask what about those who were born blind, or without limbs ? The lame, the blind, the mute, the disfigured - they may look abnormal to us but these things have to be as they were born to be for us to see God's work.
Sometimes we make the mistake of thinking that our kids owe their life to us. True in a sense but they only came through us and not from us. Fathers may have impregnated their women and women conceived and gave birth to them but still God created them. We could only pray that they come out normal and healthy but only God decides on how the baby will look like. If blind for example, we could not make them see or if the baby was born without limbs we could not make them grow. The time, the place, the circumstances, maybe we could do something about them but everything have been pre-arranged and pre-destined, Our role as parents is only to make things work in the family and wait and see how far we'll go.
In the movie " With Honors " , Joe Pesci recited in the library scene that all women - tall, short, fat, thin, dark or white - they are all perfect. The woman in our life is there to make us realize what life is really all about, they give us joy when they stay and give us pain when they leave. So its joy, pain, joy, pain, joy, pain ... life goes on as we try to figure things out. Love makes us see how wonderful they are and love makes us see how little there is to love inside of us. And sometimes we are able to make the pieces fit - two imperfect ones could become perfect for each other.
We have the wrong notion of thinking that we have to be normal for us to be happy. But how often do we see normal guys ending up in the gutter while the blind or disabled ones succeed despite their disabilities. It took a deaf guy to compose the greatest symphony - enchanting people who hear the melody yet he himself could not hear it.
Ray Charles was blind since birth but it never stopped him from fulfilling his dream to become a singing sensation. Franklin Delano Roosevelt was paralized by polio but he stood tall to lead his nation survive the great depression and World War II.
There are countless more success stories of people who overcame their disabilities and even more stories of people who were living a fairy tale kind of life only to end up as failures and losers. Pre-arranged or pre-destined, we'll never know, but all those things were perfect. Perfect in the sense that they came to be to make our life more exciting, worth living and worth pondering about. I remember a great English statesman who once said - " The glories, the achievements in arts and science all happened as our nation underwent period of wars and political struggles. It romantized our history while Switzerland , a country that enjoyed 700 years of peace could only come up with a cuckoo clock.
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