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Cadence
I have been married for 26 years to Jim and am the mother of 4 children: Brian 23 years, Melissa 21 years, Rachel 17 years, Michael 14 years and the mother-in-law of Jena, who is married to Brian. Fourteen years ago my son, Michael, was born with special needs and turned our lives upside down. We worked hard to find our new rhythm (cadence) as a family and went through a time of questioning our faith and God. I have found God to be faithful and good as we have embraced this new cadence and rhythm of our lives.
This blog includes reflections and lessons about my own life, especially pertaining to life with my son with special needs, that hopefully will encourage other parents or people to live with hope even when life doesn't look like you thought it would.
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The Writer of the Story
Posted Thursday, June 4, 2015, at 2:30 PM"Maybe you don't want to change the story, because you don't know what a different ending holds. There's a reason I am not writing the story and God is. He knows how it all works out, where it all leads, what it all means. I don't." Ann Voskamp from A Thousand Gifts... -
Be Extraordinary
Posted Tuesday, August 17, 2010, at 5:00 PMChristine Caine is a dynamic young woman who has decided to make a difference in her world. God is using her all over the world to raise awareness about human trafficking and to be a part of rescuing women from hopeless lives of slavery. Her life is inspiring... -
It All Matters
Posted Wednesday, January 20, 2010, at 2:15 PMIn the Old Testament in the Bible, the future King David was trained for greatness in the most unusual place, in a field taking care of sheep. David was anointed to be the next king of Israel when the prophet Samuel came to visit. He was the unlikely choice, so much so that his father didn't even think to call him in for the prophet to consider. He was chosen, anointed and then went back out in the field to continue his work, to take care of his responsibilities... -
Great Joy
Posted Wednesday, December 23, 2009, at 2:40 PM1The part of the story of Christ's birth in the Bible that brings me to tears and touches me in a deep place is when some shepherds were out in the fields just doing their job and an angel appeared to them. Here they were just normal everyday guys and an angel comes to fill them in on the "good news"... -
Never Alone
Posted Tuesday, October 27, 2009, at 1:22 PMI ran my first half marathon 2 weeks ago! It was an amazing experience to do something that I never dreamed I could do and to push myself way beyond what was comfortable. The best moment of the day however was when I heard about a volunteer who had come to pass out water at mile 11... -
Peace
Posted Thursday, September 17, 2009, at 11:08 AM1This week I was reading in a devotional book that I love, "Streams in the Desert". Right in the middle of the devotional I read this question, "Is it possible for us who are so easily moved by earthly things to come to a point where nothing can upset us or disturb our peace?"... -
Costly Love
Posted Tuesday, September 1, 2009, at 9:25 AMI have a friend whose father was a prominent doctor in the town she grew up in. Today her dad has Alzheimer's and has become like a child. She helps to care for him as she watches him decline right before her eyes. She has introduced me to one of her friends who took care of her husband for over 10 years as he went from being a head anesthesiologist in town to being diagnosed at a young age with the same disease and finally seeing it take his life... -
Thankful
Posted Saturday, August 22, 2009, at 7:15 AMI don't know about you, but every now and then I have a pity party (as my mom used to call it). That is, I just feel sorry for myself. Now, let me be clear about one thing, this is not a happy party. It doesn't make you feel better than when you arrived, in fact it makes you feel worse. ... -
Run
Posted Sunday, August 9, 2009, at 4:02 PMI'm training to run a half marathon! My goals, besides actually running the 13 miles, are not to whine or over analyze the experience. Having said that, let me share my analysis thus far: I've never been a runner, and I'm not sure what possessed me to try it. ... -
Surrender
Posted Wednesday, July 29, 2009, at 4:44 PM2Years ago my grandmother got too feeble to live by herself, so she moved in with my parents. When I would go visit my parents, I would watch her putter around the house with her walker and grow more feeble and forgetful as the years passed. It got to a point where she couldn't hear the TV well enough to watch it anymore, couldn't see well enough to read and had lost too many friends and family to have visitors... -
Accepted
Posted Thursday, July 23, 2009, at 11:23 AM3Have you ever been overwhelmed by the fact that we get to come into the presence of the God of all creation....just as we are? We lived in France for 3 years before we found a school that would accept Michael, our son with special needs... -
Forgotten Boy
Posted Friday, July 17, 2009, at 10:53 PM2I wrote this after spending a week in a French hospital with Michael. This boy will be in our hearts forever. Forgotten Boy I walked past his hospital room and saw him staring into space No one seemed to notice The nurses seemed to know his happy sounds... -
Handicap
Posted Friday, July 10, 2009, at 4:04 PM3My family has just moved back to the States after living in France for 9 years. In France I had a handicapped son. I'm learning that in America I'm not supposed to say "handicapped", so I have a son with "special needs". But personally I like the word "handicap". ... -
Walking On Water
Posted Friday, July 3, 2009, at 11:26 AMI was discussing the book "If You Want to Walk on Water, You've Got to Get Out of the Boat" by John Ortberg with some people recently. Great book by the way. I made a comment to them that if I were writing a book right now it would be, "If You Fall Out of the Boat, You Might as Well Walk on the Water". I was kidding, of course....or at least I thought so...