by Key Ministry | May 10, 2019 | Autism, Grief, Special Needs Parenting
What delight comes to the one who follows God’s ways! (She) will be standing firm like a flourishing treeplanted by God’s design,deeply rooted by the brooks of bliss,bearing fruit in every season of (her) life.Psalm 1:1a, 3a The Passion TranslationI woke up in a...
by Sandra Peoples | May 6, 2019 | Autism, Down syndrome, Special Needs Parenting
I sat in my husband’s recliner reading a popular book for Christian women I had heard a lot about. Its message was one of grace and not expecting perfection from ourselves or others. But one of her illustrations caused me to put it down and not read another page.She...
by Key Ministry | Apr 29, 2019 | Autism, Living Life Daily, Special Needs Parenting
The phrase that has echoed through my head for the past several months has been interrogate your assumptions. The trick is to notice when I’m acting out of a wrong belief —which is all the time—and to ask myself, ‘Why do you believe that?’...
by Key Ministry | Apr 24, 2019 | Autism, Challenges, Special Needs Parenting
For the Lord will be your confidence, and will keep your foot from being caught. Proverbs 3:26When my 17 year old son Charlie was about five, I helped him in so many different ways. At this point in our autism journey, we were really just trying to survive. I had a...
by Mark Arnold | Apr 17, 2019 | Autism, Hope, Special Needs Parenting
I heard an old hymn rearranged in a new way recently, and it deeply touched me. The words so powerful, so amazing, impacted me in a new way. The song had been introduced with the harrowing story of the songwriter, Horatio Spafford, and how against all the odds he...
by John Fela (Felageller) | Apr 12, 2019 | Autism, Challenges, Special Needs Parenting
Last October I presented at a special needs ministry conference in Kansas City. This conference attracted speakers and presenters from all over the country, many of them from Key Ministry. I was chatting with one of my fellow writers, Sarah Broady, and a couple of...
