While I may be good at many things, there is one thing at which I do not excel. Driving. Just ask my children and they will regale you with driving stories of automotive shame and humiliation. It is simply a fact that if there is a way to get lost, I will find it. Which is why, several years ago, I was so very proud of myself for not only managing to drive successfully to O’Hare International … [Read more...]
YOU WERE CHOSEN
Colossians 2:12 And so, as those who have been chosen of God, holy and beloved, put on a heart of compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience. Did you know you were chosen? Did you know God picked you out specifically to be your child’s parent? Did you know God chose you to receive Eternal Life, Everlasting Life? Did you know God sacrificed his own son for you to live … [Read more...]
Why Did God Give Me a Child with a Special Need?
Yesterday I was stumped when a reader asked me this question … causing me to pray for a response to one of the most difficult, baffling questions a parent of a special needs kid can ever face. Have you ever asked God this question?: Why, God, did you give me a child with a special need? First let me say that I wouldn't begin to tell you that I know the mystery of God's limitless wisdom. But I … [Read more...]
Her Brother’s Keeper
The day my 5-year old daughter came bursting through our front room door, breathlessly demanding that I make her older brother stop calling her a bad name, I braced myself for the worst. What “bad word” had finally found it’s way into my children’s vocabulary? “He called me a Canadian!” she cried indignantly. “A what?” I asked, thinking that I hadn’t heard this right. “A Canadian!” she repeated, … [Read more...]
Those Who Have Come Before You
We are all on a journey. A journey with our child who has a disability. I know when we first received Charlie’s autism diagnosis we scrambled to learn what this autism thing really was. We searched ways of how to help him. We searched how others were coping. I think books are great, articles are awesome, and conferences are amazing but I think the greatest thing I have found is finding others that … [Read more...]
The Power of Laughter: A Story about Holiday Worship Services, an Autistic Son… and Angry Birds
This Sunday, Christian families will take their children to an Easter worship service. Many families will be traveling with plans to visit a church home that is not their own. Other families struggle to find a place where their special needs children are welcomed. Visiting an unfamiliar church, particularly on a holiday, can put a family dealing with autism over the edge. That's why I'm … [Read more...]