by Sheri Dacon | Dec 16, 2015 | Encouragement, Spiritual Support
No Room at the Inn: Special Needs Rejection Parents know the sting of special needs rejection. We experience it as parents when we are excluded because of our children. And we experience it even more painfully when our children are rejected. Guest blogger Sheri Dacon...
by Rebekah Benimoff | Dec 2, 2015 | Encouragement, Spiritual Support
When Special Needs Parenting Resists Resolution After watching a movie, guest blogger Rebekah Benimoff was slightly dissatisfied with its neatly wrapped up resolution. Today she shares how the film did and didn’t resonate with her special needs parenting life....
by Jolene | Nov 18, 2015 | Encouragement, Spiritual Support
6 Disability Lessons Learned from a Kitchen Knife About six weeks ago, the knife I was using to remove the label from a container slipped and severed the tendon in my left thumb. After waking up from repair surgery to a left hand swathed and immobile in a ginormous...
by Stephanie Ballard | Jun 24, 2015 | Encouragement, Spiritual Support
God Kissed this Tiny Child Guest blogger, Stephanie Ballard offers up a new poem for parents of kids with special needs in today’s post. When I asked her where she came up with the idea, she said this: The first source was a poem by Erma Bombeck, in which God...
by Maggi Gale | May 27, 2015 | Encouragement, Spiritual Support
Special Needs Parenting: Why the Small Things Matter When guest blogger Maggi Gale’s daughter was born with esophageal atresia, she wanted God to answer her big questions, but he showed her the value of small things instead. Special Needs Parenting: Why the...
by Stephanie Ballard | May 13, 2015 | Encouragement, Spiritual Support
When the Storm of Special Needs Parenting Hits Guest blogger Stephanie Ballard and her son haven’t been sleeping through the night time thunder storms that are part of spring in the Midwest. Instead she used the dark hours to write a poem about weathering the...
