I want to share about this touching story. It is about a girl named Laura Lang. According to her mother, Wanda Wilson, she was born with disability and when she reached 5 she became completely deaf.
Lang loves to paint. It's what make her feel happy everyday, seeing all the paintings she made. She loves to paint forms of birds like pheasants, blue jays and cardinals and much more. When she's done painting, she'd break into a hearty laughs and claps and her mother would translate it as "because they're pretty".
I really cannot imagine how Lang manages to stay happy even she is not hearing anything. But do you believe she is really not hearing anything? If you ask me, I understand she is really hearing something deep within her. I believe there is someone whispering to her that she is a child of God and therefore she is precious in God's eyes. She's actually hearing the voice of God. We could see it in her. I believe God is definitely at her side, guiding her life and giving her love and peace within her. She's not the same with all the other children around because she has contentment in life. She doesn't ask anything more realizing that her mother and her special friend, God is with her throughout the days.
Wanda Wilson knows whatever her daughter wants to express. Her mother appreciates her in the painting she actually is making. People would ask when she starts painting, "What exactly is she wanting to express?" her mother would put a smile in her face and say, "She's just happy with what she is doing"
"Not only is Lang communicating through sign language, but also her painting shows her overall mood - she's just plain ol' happy. Lang is not able to hear the high-pitched tweets of a bird, but that does not make the detail in her paintings less powerful."
"When God takes one sense from us, he gives us another," her mother says.
"What do you think about being able to draw for people?" her mother signs.
After a couple of seconds, Lang's mother sighs, smiles and translates.
"She just thank God that she can," Lang's mother translates.
I love Laura Lang because she is happy with what she have, thus, she is very thankful for the gift of life. Despite her disability, she managed to experienced hearing the voice of God. Laura Lang is telling us to become thankful and contented on what we've got now as well as to live a peaceful and happy life.
