The most important lesson I’ve learned about helping others: the more specific you are, the more helpful you are. In the last decade of ministry, I can’t tell you how many times I’ve said (or texted), “Let me know what I can do to help!” And I meant it every time. I really did want…
Thank you to my friends and regular readers for your gracious response to the post on how our adoption didn’t go the way we hoped, but that is was still worth it. April was a month of grief and healing as we focused on time together as a family. Here’s what I learned … Watching…
Last weekend I met someone new and she asked how many kids I have. For the first time in over four years, I had to say “two boys.” Not two boys and we are adopting. Not three boys. Just two. If we’re Facebook friends or connected on Instagram, you may have seen the update we…
What happens when those with special needs age out of the education system? That’s the question Dateline set out to answer on their show this week. They spent three years following two families with young adult sons on the autism spectrum. When I asked on my Facebook page if anyone had seen it, one friend said she didn’t think…
Last week I scrolled through picture after picture of friends wearing blue and proclaiming their awareness of autism. But what happens today, when I’m at the grocery store and James has a meltdown on the cereal aisle? Or when I have to lift my seven-and-a-half-year-old onto the diaper changing table at Target? When I feel like…
It’s April. Autism Awareness Month. And today is World Autism Awareness Day, as declared by the UN back in 2008, which happens to be the latest year we have stats for autism in the U.S. 1 in 88. 1 in 54 boys. No doubt those numbers are higher now. Those numbers make me think there…
