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”...
by Sarah Walton | Nov 8, 2017 | Encouragement, Spiritual Support
Hope When It Hurts Hope when it hurts. Guest blogger Sarah Walton has learned where to find hope when it hurts, when she and her children are overwhelmed by what Lyme Disease has done to her family. Please welcome Sarah as she debuts as a Different Dream guest...
by Jolene | Oct 23, 2017 | Encouragement, Spiritual Support
Just As I Am I was not a fan of Billy Graham as a child. My dislike had nothing to do with him or his message. Rather, it had everything to do with the disruption his televised crusades brought to our family’s TV viewing schedule. Mom, a school teacher who...
by Jolene | Sep 27, 2017 | Encouragement, Spiritual Support
The Caregiver’s Treasure This morning, in the chilly half dark, I passed the houses along the route that leads to my favorite path. The acrid odor of burning electrical wires grew strong when I neared a ramshackle, uninhabited house that is the neighborhood...
