Does your heart get overwhelmed? My prayers seems to be always asking, asking, asking God for help! H e l p ! Help me cope with life! Help my four friends undergoing chemotherapy! Help two precious women I love heal from miscarrying. Help for my fragile relationship with my only brother. Help my sisters: one trying to break the bondage of drug addiction so she can succeed [...]
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Bethany’s special education teacher, Mrs. N____ and I were brainstorming, trying to develop ways to help Bethie adjust to a more formal educational environment. She’s a little spoiled by home schooling If she’s having a rough day, I can adjust what we’re doing and how we’re doing it. If she’s fidgety and restless, we [...]
Read More abortion, disabilities, downs syndrome, living between the trees, perseverence, perspective, special needs, transformation, treasureWhen Bethie was little, I would worry about how much “spiritual” truth she could truly understand. It’s one thing to read words- “Jesus loves me.” another thing to hear “God is love.” but it’s explosively powerful to SEE and HEAR in a third dimensional sense …..Sight and Sound. With downs syndrome, abstract concepts are difficult to absorb so Jeff [...]
Read More Amy, Bethany, Branson, downs syndrome, inspiration, Noah's Ark, perspective, treasureOur family’s migration to Kansas introduced us to a close up look of the “Sensational Cross-Country Flight” of the Monarch butterfly. Lawrence is a blip in their “directional GPS” as they flutter with fortitude toward their wintering home in New Mexico! Last year, Jeff and I, along with Aunt Melody, took Josh, Moriah, Finley, Cohen, and Bethany to an enclosed [...]
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“Make New Friends- But Keep the Old One is Silver and the other is Gold!” The only thing I’m sure about life is this: THINGS CHANGE. When Bethany was born, I was concerned that all her siblings were older and she wouldn’t have the joy of home schooling or playing with them; thereby not knowing them [...]
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