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Archive for November, 2009

Trig Palin has been in the news a lot lately because of his famous mother’s book tour.  That little boy has generated quite a bit of response in his young life. Lon Jacobs is general counsel for News Corporation and a father of a child with intellectual disabilities.  He describes himself as a pro-choice Democrat [...]

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May Advent Be Joyfully Serious!

The first Sunday of Advent also renews the traditional Bethlehem practice of having children light the advent candle. It is a tradition I love as fourth-grade boys and girls very seriously carry out this duty.  It is good for children to be given serious duties. Three years ago the Family Discipleship Department invited a multiply-disabled [...]

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Within weeks of each other in 2006, John Piper and David Powlison were diagnosed with prostate cancer.  Pastor John wrote a helpful article, “Don’t Waste Your Cancer,” that outlines 10 ways people can waste their cancer.  David Powlison added his thoughts to each of the ten shortly thereafter.  Here is an excerpt: 9. You will [...]

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Disability is not the end of the story.  Our labors are not in vain.  We achieve victory – through Jesus Christ! From 1 Corinthians 15:51-58 Behold! I tell you a mystery. We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. [...]

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R.C. Ryle on True Happiness

Taken from Happiness, by R.C. Ryle (1816-1900): The true Christian is the only happy man, because he can “sit down quietly and think about his soul. . .” He can think calmly about things to come, and yet not be afraid. Sickness is painful; death is solemn; the judgment day is an awful thing: but [...]

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Motherlode, a blog on parenting in the New York Times Magazine, reported on a study from The Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders that studied mothers of children with autism spectrum disorder. Some of the findings: The levels of chronic stress experienced by the mothers were similar to those of combat soldiers. The greater the [...]

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Endure to the End

We were weak, fallible, proud and full of sin even before disability entered our family.  How can anyone hope to endure for a day, let alone ‘to the end’? We trust in the New Covenant promises of sustaining, enabling grace that were obtained for us infallibly and irrevocably by Jesus Christ in his death and [...]

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Because some children will meet Jesus before they become adults. My daughter met the young girl in this video last year. That girl knew and loved Jesus. She died two weeks ago.

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That headline is inflammatory (and a direct quote from the press release I was reading) because the survey question pointed to very severe disabilities rather than all disabilities: Which would you choose: Living with a severe disability that forever alters your ability to live an independent life, or death? An interesting question, but it is [...]

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While he was at the prison, David Mathis shared this via Twitter from @pipertravel: Piper to inmates: Your being in prison is the very way Jesus is loving you—& the curse on many outside is freedom & wealth Or, in our context, your having a disability or cancer or leukemia or dementia or chronic pain [...]

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