by Key Ministry | Feb 13, 2017 | Autism, Special Needs Parenting
God made me a people pleaser. I always want people to be happy and I don’t like conflict very much. Then God blessed me with Charlie. Â A boy, well now a young man, with autism. Â When I received the diagnosis back in 2004, I fell hard. Â I didn’t even...
by Stephanie McKeever | Feb 13, 2017 | Adoption
I had a young Christian woman say to me, “A lot of Christians say they are pro-adoption, but I don’t know any who have actually done it.” She went on to say she could possibly think of one or two in her wide circle of acquaintances who had adopted...
by Stephanie McKeever | Feb 10, 2017 | Special Needs Parenting
Blindsided. That’s how it felt sitting at the long conference table with everyone seated away from me. I joked unknowingly before the meeting began about feeling ganged up on with me on one side, alone, and all seven other people on the opposite side of the...
by Sandra Peoples | Feb 9, 2017 | Families
When my mom gave birth to my sister and heard the words “Down syndrome,” she sunk into depression and spent hours rocking Syble and whispering how much she loved her, but how ill-equipped she felt to raise her. Fourteen short months later I was born and...
by Key Ministry | Feb 8, 2017 | Autism, Special Needs Parenting
My kids were never good sleepers. Children with high functioning autism rarely are. But last night something strange was afoot. I can sense it before it happens—before the audible shuffle and bump. My spidey senses, that with which we mothers are all graciously...
