Fraternal correction: Advocating with grace after medical mishaps
How can we cultivate the virtues of charity and humility, both during and after a moment where a child’s life might be at stake?
Immunity
In asking us to willingly choose a cross and do work, God does not promise us any immunity from failure or from other suffering.
Chasing the name
Diagnosing special needs children requires making peace with The Cloud of Unknowing.
Emotional suffering requires love
Emotional suffering is the true epidemic of our times. A hospital in Bronx offers a revolutionary, simple solution: love.
Three Good Things, or the vacation that wasn’t
Help doesn’t come when or how we want it, but it’s there. You can always find Three Good Things.
To my brothers and sisters in the trenches
Welcome, new readers! This blog has grown a lot in the last two weeks, and I am really, really grateful that you are here, however you found your way. Many of you have chimed in with wonderful, supportive comments, and I am so glad to know that you have identified pieces of yourself in pieces…… Continue reading To my brothers and sisters in the trenches
It is well with my soul
God has drawn beautiful goodness forth out of the rubble and ashes. He makes ALL things new, even the raggedy souls of beaten-down special needs mamas.
