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Fighting Discouragement

September 25, 2013 by Kara Dedert 4 Comments

Do the hurdles you face leave you feeling discouragement or despair, draining your energy and joy? Maybe you're at a point where getting out of bed is hard in the morning and reading about the life and hope that you have in Jesus seems like a far-off fairy-tale, not your everyday reality. What is it that's tempting you to discouragement? Is it the long list of bills? Stress between you and your … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Kara Dedert, Living Life Daily, Scripture Tagged With: kara dedert, special needs parenting

Blessing of Traditions

August 28, 2013 by Kara Dedert 2 Comments

I've never been one who loves routine or one clings to traditions. Yet there is a strange comfort and stability about traditions; they bring a sense of belonging and grounding. Biblical traditions have even more power to instruct our minds, move our hearts and guide our hands. They become the practical outworking of Deuteronomy 6: 4-9: Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. You shall … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Kara Dedert, Living Life Daily, Scripture Tagged With: kara dedert

Seeing in the Dark

July 24, 2013 by notaloneparents 9 Comments

It was only three years ago that the tide of change began. When was it for you? A tide that could never be gathered back in, spilling across the sands of life. Flattening all the castles we carefully build on the shore in our minds of how life would be. I had built castles of happily-ever-after and had already etched what our happiness would look like. The hand of the heavenly Father seemed heavy … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Joy, Kara Dedert, Terminal Diagnosis Tagged With: kara dedert, not alone, parenting special needs, special needs, special needs parenting

You Don’t Need To “Beat” Special Needs

June 26, 2013 by notaloneparents 2 Comments

If you've seen the movie, How to Train Your Dragon, try to remember how you reacted when you first saw the menacing, fire-breathing dragon. You identified him as the enemy, right? A terrifying and seemingly unstoppable enemy up against a small, weak and not-so-courageous lad named Hiccup who didn't seem to stand a chance.   Most of us feel like just that boy when we first get a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Kara Dedert, Living Life Daily, Scripture Tagged With: Enroute, kara dedert, parenting special needs, special needs, special needs parenting

When The Pain Is Too Much To Bear

January 23, 2013 by notaloneparents 8 Comments

The headlights on the road beneath blurred together. I was looking down from the seventh floor at DeVos Children's Hospital in a quiet area for parents. My heart was anything but quiet. Three weeks in ICU had turned my emotions into a paper-thin, fragile thing. Our three-year-old son, Calvin, received a tracheotomy last week to help his collapsing airway after a long bout of illness. We were … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Kara Dedert, Living Life Daily, Love, Posts By Writers, Scripture, Thanksgiving Tagged With: christian parenting, en route, faith, kara dedert, not alone, pain, severely mulitply impaired, special needs

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