des·ti·ny [ˈdestinē]
NOUN: the events that will necessarily happen to a particular person or thing in the future:
A friend once asked, "Why do I have to live so long?" She said, "There must be a reason for me to be here at this old age when I don't seem to contribute to society as I once did during my working years." Not knowing what else to say, I told her, "It must be destiny."
You would have to be a prophet or soothsayer and if there's no difference between those two words at least a fortune teller to somehow explain one's destiny. Some people are destined to accomplish great things, while others just go along for the ride. More than 700 years before the birth of Jesus, Isaiah, one of the great prophets, said, 'Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a Son, and shall call His name Immanuel." Obviously, Isaiah had a pretty good handle on the word destiny but may have had to live with some criticisms because no one around at the time would believe him... 'cept the guy who wrote it down; now-a-days, that would be called, "documented". So, Jesus was born, and his destiny was fulfilled according to the Bible. Before He went on to do great things it's important to note that He came from humble beginnings and there would be no other like Him...He is mankind's last great hope on earth... 'nough said!
As we move on in history, I can think of others who came from humble beginnings and accomplished great things, but I won't get into their stories here. Just mentioning their names should be sufficient. They are: Niccolo Tartaglia, James Croll, George Washington Carver, Abraham Lincoln, and Mary Anning...yes, I could name more but my point is, they all were destined to do great things; even without a prophet.
Now this is where I come in... I'm going to play the prophet.
In the story below it is not only a miracle that this baby was born, but her humble beginnings would overshadow those born in a manger or a log cabin. My prophesy is also a take on Isaiah (61:4) 'You (changed from the word 'they') will rebuild the *ruins and restore the places long devastated; You will renew the ruined cities that have been devastated for generations.'
*Omitted the word 'ancient'.
Meanwhile, there must be a reason for me to be here at this old age for if I was any younger, I would be wanting to adopt this baby, but I'll probably not be around long enough for her to perform any miracles... however, she will do great things. ~ Norm
The man who found a newborn baby girl alive, attached to the body of her dead mother by her umbilical cord in the wreckage of the Syrian earthquake, has described the moment he first heard her cry from under the rubble.
Khalil Shami al-Sawadi, the baby’s uncle, was at the scene of the family home, which was among hundreds of buildings destroyed in the town of Jindires, in northern Syria. He said he had been looking for his sister, the baby’s mother, Afraa Abu Hadiya, her husband Abdullah al-Mleilan, and their family, when he was called over by another rescue worker.
“First we found Abdullah’s sister,” Sawadi said. “Then someone shouted and said to come and check if they had found the mother. “I said yes, that’s her. Abdullah was near her, but they were both dead.”
Sawadi said they tried to dig her body free but then heard a sound. “We heard crying,” he said. “It was a baby, clearly a newborn baby. The umbilical cord was still attached to the mother, so we cut it and brought the baby out.”
In a scene captured on video and transmitted around the world, the two men can be seen handing the naked baby to other rescuers who cover her with a blanket.
“Abdullah’s cousin took the baby to al-Jihad hospital in Afrin,” Sawadi said.
The couple had four children, three daughters and a son, who all also died in the quake. They were among more than two million people displaced by the Syrian civil war to be living in rebel-controlled northwest Syria. They were from the village of Khasham in Deir Ezzor, the province in the country’s far southwest that has been fought over by the regime, rebels, Islamic State, and western-backed Kurdish forces for much of the last decade.
They left the village when it was captured by Isis in 2014, and eventually found shelter in Jindires in 2018, when that town was seized by rebel factions backed by Turkey.
“The entire family is in deep sadness for this loss, but they can do nothing save accept Allah’s decision,” Abdulkarim al-Karim, another cousin of the father, told The Times.
“The baby’s survival is a divine miracle. God has brought a living soul from a dead one. The newborn baby is a candle amid the darkness that has covered the family.”
The baby was found more than ten hours after the earthquake. It was unclear exactly how long after the building collapsed she had been born, but her temperature had fallen to 35C, a critical level. She weighed 7lb, a normal weight for a newborn, suggesting the mother was at or near full term.
The baby, who has not yet been named, had a large bruise to her back and more on her face, as well as scratches, but was otherwise unharmed. Dr Hani Maarouf, the doctor treating her at the hospital, told reporters he believed her mother must have been alive and conscious while delivering her but died soon after.
She would not have survived much longer because of the freezing temperatures, he said. “Had the girl been left for an hour more, she would have died,” Maarouf said.
Khalil Shami al-Sawadi, the baby’s uncle, was at the scene of the family home, which was among hundreds of buildings destroyed in the town of Jindires, in northern Syria. He said he had been looking for his sister, the baby’s mother, Afraa Abu Hadiya, her husband Abdullah al-Mleilan, and their family, when he was called over by another rescue worker.
“First we found Abdullah’s sister,” Sawadi said. “Then someone shouted and said to come and check if they had found the mother. “I said yes, that’s her. Abdullah was near her, but they were both dead.”
Sawadi said they tried to dig her body free but then heard a sound. “We heard crying,” he said. “It was a baby, clearly a newborn baby. The umbilical cord was still attached to the mother, so we cut it and brought the baby out.”
In a scene captured on video and transmitted around the world, the two men can be seen handing the naked baby to other rescuers who cover her with a blanket.
“Abdullah’s cousin took the baby to al-Jihad hospital in Afrin,” Sawadi said.
The couple had four children, three daughters and a son, who all also died in the quake. They were among more than two million people displaced by the Syrian civil war to be living in rebel-controlled northwest Syria. They were from the village of Khasham in Deir Ezzor, the province in the country’s far southwest that has been fought over by the regime, rebels, Islamic State, and western-backed Kurdish forces for much of the last decade.
They left the village when it was captured by Isis in 2014, and eventually found shelter in Jindires in 2018, when that town was seized by rebel factions backed by Turkey.
“The entire family is in deep sadness for this loss, but they can do nothing save accept Allah’s decision,” Abdulkarim al-Karim, another cousin of the father, told The Times.
“The baby’s survival is a divine miracle. God has brought a living soul from a dead one. The newborn baby is a candle amid the darkness that has covered the family.”
The baby was found more than ten hours after the earthquake. It was unclear exactly how long after the building collapsed she had been born, but her temperature had fallen to 35C, a critical level. She weighed 7lb, a normal weight for a newborn, suggesting the mother was at or near full term.
The baby, who has not yet been named, had a large bruise to her back and more on her face, as well as scratches, but was otherwise unharmed. Dr Hani Maarouf, the doctor treating her at the hospital, told reporters he believed her mother must have been alive and conscious while delivering her but died soon after.
She would not have survived much longer because of the freezing temperatures, he said. “Had the girl been left for an hour more, she would have died,” Maarouf said.
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Update
WORLD‘Miracle’: Thousands Offer To Adopt Newborn Baby Girl Orphaned In Earthquake
A newborn baby girl pulled from the devastating aftermath of the Turkey earthquake has warmed the hearts of people all over the world, with thousands offering to give the tiny child a home.
Aya, or “miracle” in Arabic, was so named by doctors because her survival truly is a miracle, the BBC reported. Pulled from the rubble with her umbilical cord still attached, Aya was the lone survivor of her family who all perished when their home in Syria crumbled around them during the powerful earthquake that rocked the region Feb 6.
“She arrived on Monday in such a bad state, she had bumps, bruises, she was cold and barely breathing,” Hani Marouf, the pediatrician observing her in the hospital, told BBC.
“We named her Aya, so we could stop calling her a newborn baby. Her condition is improving by the day and there was no damage to her spine, as initially feared,” he added, according to the Sydney Morning Herald.
After videos of the tiny baby’s rescue made their way across social media, thousands have contacted the hospital offering to adopt her, including a Kuwaiti news anchor who said, “I’m ready to take care of and adopt this child … if legal procedures allow me to,” the outlet reported.
Aya is not the only one orphaned by the quake. Dr. Muheeb Qaddour, deputy chief of the health department in Syria’s Idlib province, told the outlet that the situation in the country has made figuring out how many children have been left parentless too confusing at the moment.
“But now people are beginning to realise there are many children now without families. There is a great embrace of them by society. Distant relatives take them in before they would go to an orphanage. Regrettably it is only after the dust of the earthquake settles that things become clear,” he told the Sydney Morning Herald.
Baby Aya will be taken in by her father’s uncle, Salah al-Badran, once she is well enough to be released from the hospital, The Associated Press reported.
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