Posts by Christy Wilkens
Fraternal Correction: Five Easy Tips for Medical Advocacy with Grace
How can we cultivate the virtues of charity and humility, both during and after a moment where a child’s life might be at stake?
Read MoreFollowing God’s will is not a free pass from suffering
In asking us to willingly choose a cross and do work, God does not promise us any immunity from failure or from other suffering.
Read MoreChasing the name
Diagnosing special needs children requires making peace with The Cloud of Unknowing.
Read MoreEmotional suffering requires love
Emotional suffering is the true epidemic of our times. A hospital in Bronx offers a revolutionary, simple solution: love.
Read MoreThree Good Things, or the vacation that wasn’t
Help doesn’t come when or how we want it, but it’s there. You can always find Three Good Things.
Read MoreTo my brothers and sisters in the trenches
Welcome, new readers! This blog has grown a lot in the last two weeks, and I am really, really grateful that you are here, however you found your way. Many of you have chimed in with wonderful, supportive comments, and I am so glad to know that you have identified pieces of yourself in pieces…
Read MoreIt is well with my soul
God has drawn beautiful goodness forth out of the rubble and ashes. He makes ALL things new, even the raggedy souls of beaten-down special needs mamas.
Read MoreThat time we went to Lourdes and our son was healed
In which we address the elephant in the room and the million dollar question: What happened AFTER the baths?
Read MoreWhat really happened in the baths at Lourdes
Awkwardness! Confusion! Doubt! Our time in the baths was the beginning of the story, not the end.
Read MoreThe sick and the suffering are a powerful icon of Christ
Everywhere we went in Lourdes, the gaze of the beloved was turned upon us. The effect of this gaze, on both the bestower and the object, was transformative.
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