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Special Teams (The Kicker) | A Post-Game Huddle

Feb 4, 2014 | Categories: Devotionals, Don't Diss Disability (DissAbility), Grief & Loss, Humor, Uncategorized, and Why me? Why my child?. Tags: Parenting and Super Bowl.

Confession: I’m not much of a football person. I just can’t wrap my brain around all the rules. I’m not a rules person. As they say in the Pirates of the Caribbean, “Rules? They’re more like guidelines, anyways…” Most of the time, I’m like this, But I can get into a Super Bowl party (who doesn’t love a snack buffet?) One of my primitive questions was, “Lemme get this straight: ...

“Just a piece of paper” – In Honor of Autism D-Day

Aug 20, 2013 | Categories: Devotionals, Faith Rehab (Mad at God), God Understands?!, Grief & Loss, Healing, No, You're Not The Only One..., Spiritual IEP for me, Uncategorized, and Why me? Why my child?. Tags: Devotional, Faith Rehab, God Understands?!, Grief & Loss, and Why?!.

In honor of our D-Day. On August 20, 2004, a pediatric neurologist scribbled, “Diagnostic code 299.00. Autism,” on a prescription pad. Some pieces of paper cut far deeper than others. ********************************************************** “Just a piece of paper” A marriage certificate. Divorce papers. A Do Not Resuscitate Form. An adoption certificate....

Happy Birthday

Jan 8, 2013 | Categories: Devotionals and Uncategorized.

Dear Jeremy, Happy birthday. I don’t know if you’ll ever understand all this, but here’s a list of the things I celebrate about you today: Thanks for not being violent or an aggressive biter, hitter, or non-sleeper. Thanks for being ok with taking you out of the house to different places, and to eat different things. Thanks for being a really sweet and compliant, happy-go-lucky kid, all things...

“Broken” Child, Broken Parent

Jan 1, 2013 | Categories: Devotionals, Grief & Loss, and Uncategorized. Tags: Why?!.

“I used to think my son’s disability, his “brokenness,” was intolerable. But now I find myself glorying in my own.” In 2004, my family stepped off a plane after one year of serving on foreign missions to Central Asia. We had taken our six-month old newborn, Jeremy, to a third world country few had ever heard of, until we explained, “It’s a country next...

Mother’s Day, Post Mortem

May 13, 2012 | Categories: Devotionals, God Understands?!, Grief & Loss, Mommy Martyrdom, and No, You're Not The Only One.... Tags: mothers day.

The Day After All fanfare is done. Restaurants recover from the busiest day of the year. Florists sweep away forlorn bouquets that weren’t pretty enough to get picked. Drugstores stash away the picked-over greeting cards. Maybe they’ll get recycled next year. For many women, it may not have been a joyous day of celebration. Perhaps no one feted them like “Queen for...