by Jolene | Nov 25, 2024 | Different Dream, Grief, Holidays, Special Needs Parenting, Spiritual Support
This Thanksgiving I’m grateful for grief. That statement is going to make family members scratch their heads when we celebrate the holiday together and I announce that this Thanksgiving I’m grateful for grief. Chances are, those words are making you, as a family...
by Heather Braucher | Nov 20, 2024 | Different Dream, Encouragement, Special Needs Parenting, Spiritual Support
The power names have for kids with disabilities and special needs is rarely given the attention it deserves. In this post, guest blogger Heather Braucher reflects upon the positive and negative power names associated with our children and their disabilities have on...
by Jolene | Nov 15, 2024 | Different Dream, Encouragement, Special Needs Parenting
November is Caregiver Awareness Month. As someone who became one of my dad’s caregivers before I started school, I grew up thinking everyone in the world was aware of caregivers and caregiving. As young adults, my husband and I cared for a son born with a...
by Kristin Faith Evans | Oct 23, 2024 | Different Dream, Encouragement, Spiritual Support
Addressing faith struggles and doubts as special needs parents is normal says guest blogger Kristen Faith Evans. In today’s post she describes her journey and ways she found to draw closer to God when she doubted his goodness. When my disabled daughter was younger, I...
by Sandy Ramsey-Trayvick | Oct 16, 2024 | Different Dream, Encouragement, Special Needs Parenting, Spiritual Support
God’s plans for our children are like a puzzle larger than any Sandy Ramsey-Trayvick has ever completed. In today’s post she describes how putting together jigsaw puzzles had shown her to trust in God’s plans for her kids. I began doing jigsaw puzzles again while we...
by Mark Arnold | Oct 2, 2024 | Different Dream, Encouragement, Special Needs Parenting, Spiritual Support
God’s power is more than sufficient to answer our prayers. As Christ-followers, we know that. What we don’t know is how he will do it. Guest blogger Mark Arnold is here with a story about how his prayer was answered on a very rainy day. Each Thursday, we take our son...
