Tag: comfort
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The God of All Comfort
It has been a challenging year of helping relatives with health difficulties ranging from pre-cancer to debilitating mental health challenges. Through it all God has provided friends, family and strangers to bring wisdom and comfort to each situation. When a relative was diagnosed with a stage 3 pre-cancerous mole, no one in my family was…
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Work for words
It seems to be working – lately we have been giving our son jobs to do if he can’t control his mouth. Last week there was one evening where that snowballed a bit, and he ended up with quite a few jobs. After getting a few jobs for saying mean things like, “you’re stupid,” when…
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autistic child + losing my mind
My heart goes out to whomever (or whoever, I can never remember which is the correct one to use when) it was that found my blog using those search terms. I was to that point, myself, this past Monday and Tuesday. After a typical weekend of my son’s constant fussing over every little thing, picking a…
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It feels like our son has died.
(My child has Autism Specrum Disorder? Devotional #1) Psalm 23:4 Yeah, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for your rod and your staff, they comfort me. The son we had grown to know and love seemed to disappear. He was no longer just the bright…
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Our worst fears are confirmed.
(You Want to Test My Kid for What? Devotional #7) Job 3:25 What I feared has come upon me; what I dreaded has happened to me. It wasn’t exactly surprising to us, since the specialists made it clear all along that they thought our son may have autism. But getting the actual label was quite…