When Abigail Tanner sat down to play piano and sing for her terminally ill baby son as they visited a neurology specialist, she had no idea that she was about to go viral.

Abigail, a mother of three, was visiting a Duke University-affiliated hospital when she was filmed singing the song “Never Enough” from the 2017 film The Greatest Showman to her 1 year-old son, Lincoln. Staffers and nurses gathered around to applaud the mother as soon as the song ended.

“At the end, the balconies were filled with people who were enjoying it,” said Abigail. “It was really special.”

Abigail had been to the hospital with Lincoln many times before to deal with the symptoms he suffered from Malignant Migrating Partial Seizures of Infancy, which is a terminal form of epilepsy that causes the baby to get uncontrollable seizures.

At one point, Lincoln was suffering 200 seizures a day.

“He started having seizures at a couple days old, but we didn’t know that’s what they were until four weeks later, and we took him to the hospital because he was turning purple and was having these strange episodes,” Abigail recalled. “At one point Lincoln was seizing every five minutes. That was frightening, but God gave us a peace, as scary and as dark as it did get.”

Thankfully, medications have now brought Lincoln’s seizures down from 200 a day to 20. This has given Abigail and her family the chance to spend more quality time with him.

Since Lincoln is non-verbal and can’t see, music has become a crucial way of communicating with him.

“For me, I go play any chance I get because it helps me to process what’s going on and also always just gives me a chance to sing to him or encourage others,” she said. “I always get to hear somebody else’s story from sitting at that piano, and that’s always a blessing to me.”

Abigail now has some advice for other parents of children with disabilities.

“Stay right where you are, be present, and don’t lose hope,” she said. “God is using this little boy who can’t speak to preach a message to millions of people that there’s hope and that this isn’t the end, we believe the best is yet to come. Lincoln’s life is valuable, and he has taught us so much. It’s hard, but it’s such a blessing to be his mom.”

Please keep little Lincoln in your thoughts and prayers! Watch Abigail sing to him in the video below.