The Lord's Plan is Often Hard to Understand

One of my closest friends, Elizabeth, had an ultrasound on the 19th for a long awaited baby. Liz and Aaron didn't care what the baby was just as long as it was healthy. She found out that the baby was a girl but also that there was something terribly wrong with her. Technical names aside the baby did not develop her skull or the skin above her eyebrows, exposing her brain to ammoniac fluid and in essence killing her. Her heart is still beating because her brain stem is protected but, the doctors say that she will not make it more than a few minutes here on earth, if she makes it that long. They have already been to a specialist that confirmed all of this and have prayed and prayed about what to do now. They have received the answer to go to about 34 weeks (May sometime) and then deliver, giving them the best chance at the few moment with her.
I am so sad for her and especially her children who have wanted a baby for almost 6 years. Sometimes it is really hard to understand why one is given inspiration to do something (in this instance get pregnant) if the outcome is going to be so terrible. Liz is Liz and so excepting that this is the Lords plan and that things will be okay. She said they spent the first night solely on the kids and helping them through everything until the cried themselves to sleep at 9:00 and then she was able to break down. I have watched too many people I love lose babies and I am not sure what is worse - knowing before hand or not. I wish this plan was a little easier and that there wasn't so much pain that last for such a long time.