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*Search Me O God*
*Psalm 139*
*Video:*
*Steve DeBoer*: Our first child was easy, piece of cake.
Everybody said, “You know, you couldn’t
have had an easier child.”
All of a sudden we come along, and we knew Matthew was going to have
some problems before he was born.
Then the birth doesn’t go well.
*Dena DeBoer*: He pretty much coded or arrested the first 24 hours of his life.
That next day they
came and told us he was going to die.
And then he didn’t.
He had lost about 70-75% of his brain.
Most of it was fluid in there, and they wanted us to put him in an institution.
And he was all of
maybe 7-8 pounds as it was.
And they left as we fell apart.
And we prayed, and we took him home.
We did.
Best 8 and ½ years of our lives.
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*Doug Kuszak*: We were high school sweethearts and got married.
And at 25, we’re having our little
one.
We didn’t know the day he was born that he had Down Syndrome.
*Stacey Kuszak*: Our doctor knew that we had no clue.
And so he just let us enjoy Austin, and he
told us the next morning.
*Doug Kuszak*: And then it was like a freight train.
We weren’t Christians at the time.
We knew
Jesus.
We knew He died for us we thought.
But that’s about it.
We didn’t know you’re supposed to
have this personal relationship with Him.
*Stacey Kuszak*: I just think of the way that Austin’s changed us.
Like sometimes I sit and think
about what would we be like if Austin hadn’t been born with Down Syndrome.
And it’s just scary
to think about what we would be like.
God has just changed our hearts.
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*Susan Browne*: My sons are now 28 and 26, and they go to a day center during the day.
When I go
in there I see 35 of the most severely disabled people in our city.
They’re there with them all day.
When I walk in, my heart just melts.
*Mike Browne*: Our boys are at the lower end of the spectrum.
They have no speech, but they’re
ambulatory.
They can get up and walk.
But it’s tough.
It’s hard all day long to have one, and then to
have two.
*Susan Browne*: For the first 10 years of our sons’ lives, we weren’t Christians.
So you can imagine
how difficult that was.
We’re going, “What is the point of our children being this way?”
And,
“Why?”
And searching desperately all over the world for answers which weren’t there – for a
reason, I’m sure.
But when we became believers, and we did have a lot of contact with Pastor
Lehman at that time, and he quoted out of the Bible the verse that is about the disciples asking Jesus
who sinned: Why was your son born blind?
And it was for God’s glory that God’s worth would
shine through him.
It wasn’t for your sin.
It was for God.
*Mike Browne*: We came to know the Lord.
And when we were talking one night – just Susie and I
- we were saying it’s all because of the boys isn’t it?
Yeah, it’s all because of the boys.
So you get
back to the point of seeing these little people who perceptively to the world have no value – cast
offs – and they affect everything.
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*Dena DeBoer*: When Matthew was in the NICU, there was somebody that came to visit.
And she
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