The future missionaries we went to seminary with had a unique quality: they felt a calling to a people group or to a specific place. Before they left the states, they studied the language and got to know the customs of the people they were going to live among. They made strategic plans to be at…
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…
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…
Life in the time of the book of Judges was hard. Again and again we read, “the people of Israel did what was evil in the sight of the Lord.” But even in those hard times, they were not without hope. God’s purpose would prevail. As we read in Judges chapter 3, part of that…