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The smell of rain 
At the end of this story, it gives you two options. I 
think you will figure out what option I chose. 
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. 
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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. 
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At 12 inches long and 
weighing only one pound 
nine ounces, they already 
knew she was perilously 
premature. 
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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. 
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"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" 
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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. 
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"No! No!" was all Diana could say. 
She and David, with their 5year-
old son Dustin, had long 
dreamed of the day they 
would have a daughter to 
become a family of four. 
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Now, within a matter of 
hours, that dream was 
slipping away 
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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. 
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But as the weeks went by, 
she did slowly gain an ounce 
of weight here and an ounce 
of strength there. 
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At last, when Dana turned 
two months old. her parents 
were able to hold her in their 
arms for the very first time. 
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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. 
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Five years later, when Dana 
was a petite but feisty young 
girl with glittering gray eyes 
and an unquenchable zest for 
life. 
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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. 
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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?" 
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Smelling the air and detecting 
the approach of a 
thunderstorm, Diana replied, 
"Yes, it smells like rain." 
Dana closed her eyes and 
again asked, "Do you smell 
that?" 
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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." 
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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. 
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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. 
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You now have 1 of 2 choices. 
You can either pass this on 
and let other people catch the 
chills like you did or you can 
delete this and act like it 
didn't touch your heart like it 
did mine. 
IT'S YOUR CALL! 
"I can do all things in Him 
who strengthens me." 
This morning when the Lord 
opened a window to Heaven, 
He saw me, and He asked: 
"My child, what is your 
greatest wish for today?" I 
responded: 
"Lord please, take care of the 
person who is reading this 
message, their family and 
their special friends. They 
deserve it and I love them 
very much" The love of God 
is like the ocean, you can see 
its beginning, but not its end. 
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This message works on the 
day you receive it. Let us see 
if it is true. _____________ 
ANGELS EXIST but some 
times, since they don't all 
have wings, we call them 
FRIENDS 
Pass this on to your true 
friends. Something good will 
happen to you at 11:00 in the 
morning; something that you 
have been waiting to hear. 
This is not a joke; someone 
will call you by phone or will 
speak to you about 
something that you were 
waiting to hear. 
Do not break this prayer; 
send it to a minimum of 5 
people 



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