What do you think of this story? real or not?

Question

A cold March wind danced around the dead of night in Dallas as the doctor walked into the small hospital room of Diana Blessing. She was still groggy from surgery. Her husband, David, held her hand as they braced themselves for the latest news. That afternoon of March 10, 1991, complications had forced Diana, only 24-weeks pregnant, to undergo an emergency Cesarean to deliver couple's new daughter, Dana Lu Blessing. At 12 inches long and weighing only one pound nine ounces, they already knew she was perilously premature. Still, the doctor's soft words dropped like bombs. "I don't think she's going to make it," he said, as kindly as he could. "There's only a 10-percent chance she will live through the night, and even then, if by some slim chance she does make it, her future could be a very cruel one" Numb with disbelief, David and Diana listened as the doctor described the devastating problems Dana would likely face if she survived. She would never walk, she would never talk, she would probably be blind, and she would certainly be prone to other catastrophic conditions from cerebral palsy to complete mental retardation, and on and on. "No! No!" was all Diana could say. She and David, with their 5-year-old son Dustin, had long dreamed of the day they would have a daughter to become a family of four. Now, within a matter of hours, that dream was slipping away But as those first days passed, a new agony set in for David and Diana. Because Dana's underdeveloped nervous system was essentially 'raw', the lightest kiss or caress only intensified her discomfort, so they couldn't even cradle their tiny baby girl against their chests to offer the strength of their love. All they could do, as Dana struggled alone beneath the ultraviolet light in the tangle of tubes and wires, was to pray that God would stay close to their precious little girl. There was never a moment when Dana suddenly grew stronger. But as the weeks went by, she did slowly gain an ounce of weight here and an ounce of strength there. At last, when Dana turned two months old. her parents were able to hold her in their arms for the very first time. And two months later, though doctors continued to gently but grimly warn that her chances of surviving, much less living any kind of normal life, were next to zero, Dana went home from the hospital, just as her mother had predicted. Five years later, when Dana was a petite but feisty young girl with glittering gray eyes and an unquenchable zest for life. She showed no signs whatsoever of any mental or physical impairment. Simply, she was everything a little girl can be and more. But that happy ending is far from the end of her story. One blistering afternoon in the summer of 1996 near her home in Irving, Texas, Dana was sitting in her mother's lap in the bleachers of a local ball park where her brother Dustin's baseball team was practicing. As always, Dana was chattering nonstop with her mother and several other adults sitting nearby when she suddenly fell silent. Hugging her arms across her chest, little Dana asked, "Do you smell that?" Smelling the air and detecting the approach of a thunderstorm, Diana replied, "Yes, it smells like r ain." Dana closed her eyes and again asked, "Do you smell that?" Once again, her mother replied, "Yes, I think we're about to get wet. It smells like rain." Still caught in the moment, Dana shook her head, patted her thin shoulders with her small hands and loudly announced, "No, it smells like Him. It smells like God when you lay your head on His chest." Tears blurred Diana's eyes as Dana happily hopped down to play with the other children. Before the rains came, her daughter's words confirmed what Diana and all the members of the extended Blessing family had known, at least in their hearts, all along. During those long days and nights of her first two months of her life, when her nerves were too sensitive for them to touch her, God was holding Dana on His chest and it is His loving scent that she remembers so well.

Answer 1

Yes, it's a real story. Do I believe it relates actual events? Probably not. But it is certainly a story.

Answer 2

It's true that a writer of fiction can draw their inspiration from the real world, real history, or imbue their stories with serious idea's, that's fine, and in fact fiction is often underrated in this respect. However, that a writer creates an imaginary character, but has that character say interesting or even true things, does not make that character real. There is a big difference between agreeing with something Sherlock Holmes says, and believing that he is a real person, of course in fact, you are agreeing with what Conan Doyle decided Sherlock Holmes aught to say. So, it's one thing to agree or even admire what the guys who wrote the bible were trying to say on moral matters, and believing that their character (god) is a real person. God is a character, that if he is believed in, cannot be disagreed with, cannot be considered to be wrong about anything, no modern day learning and advancement or simple truth that gainsays what god is meant to have said and done can be acknowledged. When you consider that all of that power actually resides in the hands of a few human writers from a less than enlightened antiquity, that it is their word that cannot be gainsaid, their opinion on moral matters that so many millions of people live their whole lives by and never question, then you have to see how monstrous that can be. The writer of fiction may have some really great things to say through his/her characters, but it is the writer who is real, and human, and fallible, not the character.

Answer 3

(REAL) I wish to be a friend of Dana's so that she would introduce me to God or maybe let me share His loving scent while i lay on the other part of His chest. (are you Dana's friend?)

I like the story ( I read it two times)

Answer 4

A nice pat little story.

Answer 5

Yeah, probably.

it seems kinda familiar, maybe a read it b4 or summit.

God Bless

do u kno HIM?
http://www.needgod.com
http://eternitywhere.com

Answer 6

Wow, I could believe it if the little girl told me herself. but I'm not sure if you made this up or what. I could definitely believe though.

Answer 7

And had she been born to a Muslim family, she would have "smelled" Allah.

Interestingly: absent modern science, the baby would have died..

Answer 8

definately real, no doubt about it, God works wonders when His children gather in His name and pray.

Answer 9

anything is possible with God.