Is Love a Feeling or a Decision? Is love a feeling that sweeps us away, releases feel good endorphins and makes our heart happy and our brain mush? Or is love a decision that enriches our lives? Yes. Throughout our lives we’re called to grow outside of our old selves. New beginnings demand new aptitude. […]
My Top 5 platitudes and phrases NOT to say to a parent who has a child with special needs Is she high functioning? Ex-cuuuuuse me?! How can there even be any kind of measurable answer to that? As compared to what? or whom? or when? Would it make you feel better if I […]
I John 4:17 The Message God is love. When we take up permanent residence in a life of love, we live in God and God lives in us. This way, love has the run of the house, becomes at home and mature in us, so that we’re free of worry on Judgment Day…..There is no […]
Children with “Special Needs”, most important “need”, is to be introduced to and grow in the knowledge of God as their Heavenly Father! *just like everyone else 🙂 Don’t believe the lie that someone who is limited or challenged in the area of intellect- cannot experience God. We are all born limited in […]
Hustling into the bedroom, determined to “hurry” Bethany along so we could get to school on time, I stopped abruptly. Bethie was sitting in the middle of the floor, still in her pajamas, sporting a blonde wig. “Beth- you need to get dressed for school.” “This is what I’m wearing today mom. I decided.” “Well, […]
My most challenging ongoing lesson: “Letting Go-d” Years of protecting, nurturing, & shielding her from the “looks”, “nonacceptance”, negative experiences, or situations where she would flounder, have left me with a bit of a “nest” mentality. I know the “nest” where we are safe- where we thrive- where Bethany is safeguarded and secure – where […]