I feel like this summer was the summer of sorry. Every email I sent started with “Sorry for the delay in replying …” But even though I said sorry to lots of people, I didn’t say very often to my family. Since this was James’s first summer without school, therapy, or help from a TSS…
It’s been a quiet month here on the blog, but you can find me writing at a couple other places this week: We talk a lot about how churches can bless special-needs families. But have you thought about all the ways special-needs families bless the churches they attend? I can think of four big ways…
I first read Andrew and Rachel’s book last year when it was published in the UK (their home country). I loved it. It’s at the top of my list now for books to share with other special-needs parents (along with Wrestling with an Angel by Greg Lucas). I was so excited to see Crossway publish…
I like personality profiles. I’m an INTJ, enneagram 1, C (on the DISC scale), and a beaver, so that shouldn’t surprise anyone. I like labels and boxes and people who have labels and fit into boxes. I’ve lost some of my labels lately, parts of my identity. I was an adoptive mom, then I wasn’t….
Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego answered and said to the king, “O Nebuchadnezzar, we have no need to answer you in this matter. If this be so, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and he will deliver us out of your hand, O king. But if not, be it known…
We need faith. Faith that His purpose and will for our lives and the lives of our children will be fulfilled. Faith that when doctors, therapist, teachers, and even friends and family members fail us, He never will. When we have meetings about James, I bring a binder full of information. Copies of therapy evaluations,…
