by Jolene | Jan 18, 2018 | Encouragement, Spiritual Support
When We Seek the Mind of Christ Our thermometer read nine below zero this morning. The double doors that open onto our south-facing deck are frozen shut. A crust of frost along the bottom of the inside of each door led to a rolled blanket on the floor in front of...
by Jolene | Dec 27, 2017 | Encouragement, Spiritual Support
The Gift of Disability The gift of disability wasn’t on my Christmas list. But in early October, when I tripped and broke the fifth metatarsal on my right foot, I discovered God had moved temporary disability to the top of His list for me. The gift included 1...
by Kimberly Drew | Dec 6, 2017 | Encouragement, Spiritual Support
Special Needs Parenting WILL Get Better Special needs parenting WILL get better says guest blogger Kimberly Drew. And since she’s going through a rough patch as a parent and still says that, struggling Different Dream readers can trust the reassurance she offers...
by Jolene | Nov 27, 2017 | Encouragement, Spiritual Support
When Disability Reveals the Depths of My Dependence This year, I cooked Thanksgiving dinner in a wheelchair. Not to raise funds for my favorite disability organization. Not as a show of solidarity with my friends who get around in wheelchairs. Not in memory of my...
by Jolene | Nov 16, 2017 | Encouragement, Spiritual Support
I Want to Come Home My longing to come home intensifies each time my body fails me, when loved ones die, and upon hearing of another child receiving a different special needs diagnosis. One day when the longing was especially strong, I tried to explain the source of...
by Scott Newport | Nov 15, 2017 | Encouragement, Spiritual Support
I’m Just a Carpenter Guest blogger Scott Newport often introduces himself as “just a carpenter.” But he’s also a man of great dreams, and today he shares a story of an act of kindness that is encouraging him to be “just a carpenter”...
