by Jolene Philo | Nov 27, 2023 | Caregiving, Spiritual Growth
Practicing gratitude in hard seasons can be, well, hard.That less-than-astounding conclusion seems obvious, but I don’t think about such things when life is good. Only when challenges slap me upside the head do I return to practicing gratitude in hard...
by Joe and Cindi Ferrini | Nov 20, 2023 | Caregiving, Special Needs Parenting, Spiritual Growth
Oswald Chambers in My Utmost for His Highest shares this, “Joshua 24:15 says Choose you this day who you will serve….but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.’ It is a deliberate calculation, not something into which you drift easily…..The proposition is...
by Key Ministry | Nov 13, 2023 | Caregiving, Special Needs Parenting, Spiritual Growth
As we walked from our table in the restaurant out to the car, I noticed some of the glances from the people around us along the way. After I helped my mom down the step with her walker, a woman looked at me as if she wanted to say something but didn’t. Another man...
by Joe and Cindi Ferrini | Oct 16, 2023 | Caregiving, Challenges, Living Life Daily, Special Needs Parenting, Spiritual Growth
In My Utmost for His Highest, Oswald Chambers said, “It’s easy to say, ‘Fret not,’ but a very different thing to have such a disposition that you find yourself able not to fret. It sounds so easy to talk about…‘waiting patiently for Him’ until the nest is upset—until...
by Joe and Cindi Ferrini | Aug 21, 2023 | Caregiving, Special Needs Parenting, Spiritual Growth
Do you ever think your everyday spiritual life shows little progress in growing spiritually? When our girls were little, we could see their daily and even moment-to-moment physical development progress and changes, but our now 42- year-old son Joey (who has special...
by Jolene Philo | May 22, 2023 | Caregiving, Spiritual Growth
Editors note: this is part four of a five-part series on Empowering Kids with disabilities. Part five will publish in June 2023. Empowering kids with disabilities, as the previous posts in this series have suggested, can be a challenge for caregivers. We have to make...
