compassion

Six Points to Help Prioritize Your Marriage, Starting Today

Six Points to Help Prioritize Your Marriage, Starting Today

The school year is in full swing. Parents and children know what to do to make academics and extracurricular activities a priority. Applying this process to our own lives, ask yourself, “Is our marriage a priority? Here are six areas to help you and your spouse make your marriage a priority, starting today.

Welcoming Siblings Home for the COVID Holidays

Welcoming Siblings Home for the COVID Holidays

As I sat down to share life with fellow special needs parents in this blog, it occurred to me that the best I might offer was a shared prayer for the upcoming holiday season. Perhaps you, too, are thinking out of the box about how to make the most of new and unexpected holiday dynamics. Together let’s pray, Lord, make our homes an instrument of Your peace.

You Rest While We Pray

You Rest While We Pray

This text was the first in a long thread to lighten my spirit. The thread began the day before when a couple in our church small group sent devastating news about the death of their grand-baby. We responded with pandemic-style support—text messages—and then the response from a mother in our small group who had lost a baby many years ago.

A Prayer for Minimized Losses and Multiplied Gains During COVID-19

A Prayer for Minimized Losses and Multiplied Gains During COVID-19

Until God releases us from threats like COVID-19, my family is leaning hard into prayer. In many ways, we’re paraphrasing a very helpful prayer prayed over our daughter from so many years ago. I hope extended families, friends and churches will join us in praying this prayer, too.

Compassion in the Days of COVID19

Compassion in the Days of COVID19

Last month I published a blog regarding strategies for dealing with the COVID-19 quarantine, specifically as a single special needs parent. This month, I would like to focus on one of these strategies in particular, and this is the last of the “Three C’s,” Compassion.