Keep Hoping for Our Children with Special Needs

by May 24, 2017Encouragement, Spiritual Support1 comment

en told to be careful what we hope for. But Maggie Gale reminds us that it's even more important to keep hoping for our kids with special needs

Guest blogger Maggi Gale shares a word of hope for a future and a fortress for our children with special needs. Enjoy!

Keep Hoping

Be careful what you hope for! There are times though, that it’s even more important to be careful to keep hoping than to be careful what you hope for!

So what are you hoping for?
Hoping for the day he will come home from hospital…
Hoping the nightmares will stop…
Hoping for her to go to a “normal” school…

Or, as in the case of our friends whose daughter has been diagnosed with pervasive refusal syndrome, hoping for her to be willing and able to start living her life again.

We recently visited a fort, surrounded by the craggy Hajar mountains, bleak and foreboding in the relentless Arabian heat. Built in the late eighteenth century, the thick mud brick and stone walls made it a secure retreat. Standing on the lookout, I could almost hear the cry of the enemy advancing and see the arrows being fired through angled slat windows.

This fortress was a place of security.

The windows were too narrow to allow ammunition inwards. Here, there was no need to fear. A confined place, but one of safety.

Comfortable?
Not at all.
A place to wait for danger to pass.
A place essential for survival.

We've all been told to be careful what we hope for. But, guest blogger Maggie Gale reminds us that it's even more important to keep hoping for our kids with special needs.

Zachariah speaks of hope as a fortress. “Return to your fortress, you prisoners of hope; even now I announce that I will restore twice as much to you.”

If hope is a fortress, it’s one we can choose to retreat to by holding onto the promises that God has spoken to us. To confine ourselves within the framework of His word and to an awareness that despite every, everything, there is a loving God.

Though he brings grief, he will show compassion,
 so great is his unfailing love.
 He does not willingly bring affliction
 or grief to anyone.

The alternative to hope is as hostile as the Hajar mountains.
Today, be careful that you keep hoping.

We've all been told to be careful what we hope for. But, guest blogger Maggie Gale reminds us that it's even more important to keep hoping for our kids with special needs.

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By Maggi Gale

Maggi is a wife and mother of two daughters. She is a primary school teacher, having worked in Africa for 14 years before moving to the Middle East. Her passions are her animals and art. Her youngest daughter was born with tracheoesophageal fistula (TEF). This birth condition was to be the start of an arduous journey, impacting the whole family for several years. Through writing, she hopes to turn her experiences into encouragement for others on similar paths.

1 Comment

  1. Maree Dee

    We have to keep hoping. We have a powerful God who can do miracles if he chooses and if not he will equip us for the journey.

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