Dr. William H. Willimon, our minister at the historic Duke Chapel at Duke University, shared an insight to the Lenten season while he was a pastor in South Carolina. He was called to the hospital to be with a couple who belonged to the congregation he served. The wife had given birth to a child. Word had drifted out of the delivery room that all was not well.

 

Dr. Willimon then shared how the doctor spared few words. "Your baby is afflicted with Down''s Syndrome, mongolism. I had expected this. But things were too far along before I could say for sure. Anyway, that''s the way it is, unfortunately."

 

"Is the baby healthy?" she asked.

 

"That''s what I wanted to discuss with you," said the doctor. "The baby is healthy--except for the problem. However, the baby does have a slight, rather co…