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7 Ways Special Needs Have Made Me a Wealthy Mother

May 11, 2016 by Barbara Dittrich 4 Comments

Since I was a little girl, I had a fierce desire to become a mother.  I could not necessarily articulate the reasons why I had this burning aspiration within me, but it was relentlessly rooted.  I can even recall my classmates laughing at me in second grade when I gave my simple answer to the teacher's what we wanted to be when we grew up inquiry, "I just want to get married some day and be a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Barbara Dittrich, Living Life Daily Tagged With: motherhood, transformation

Transformation!

July 9, 2015 by Kathleen Bolduc 1 Comment

      A Meditation on  Psalm 130              When the bottom falls out   from under my feet I shout Help, God! I grab onto your life-preserver Word and you respond, not with mouth-to-mouth resuscitation but with cellular transformation. Metamorphosis, Body/mind/spirit revolution. Every day I fall, call your name, recall your Word. You scoop me up, remind … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Grief, Joy, Kathy Bolduc, Living In The Moment, Living Life Daily, Peace, Scripture Tagged With: Bible, hope, parents of children with disabilities, special needs parenting, transformation, weary

Why Do We Weep?

April 9, 2015 by Kathleen Bolduc 4 Comments

 ...Mary stood outside the tomb weeping. As she wept, she knelt to look into the tomb and saw two angels sitting there, dressed in white, one at the head, the other at the foot of where Jesus’ body had been laid. They said to her, “Woman, why do you weep?”  “They took my Master,” she said, “and I don’t know where they put him.” After she said this, she turned away and saw Jesus standing there. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Autism, Grief, Joy, Kathy Bolduc, Living Life Daily, Scripture Tagged With: autism, Easter, Grief and special needs, resurrection, transformation

When Cancer Comes Calling

September 11, 2014 by Kathleen Bolduc 7 Comments

      An uninvited guest showed up at my door ten weeks ago.  Its name? Endometrial cancer. Every time I sit down to write about this unwelcome guest my brain turns to cotton candy, words get stuck in the gummy mess, and a blinking cursor on the computer screen sings nah-nah-nah-nah-nah. My brain may feel like cotton candy, but at the soul level substantial work is … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Autism, Kathy Bolduc, Living In The Moment, Living Life Daily, Peace, Scripture Tagged With: autism, cancer, Letting go, transformation

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