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?
In asking us to willingly choose a cross and do work, God does not promise us any immunity from failure or from other suffering.
Diagnosing special needs children requires making peace with The Cloud of Unknowing.
Emotional suffering is the true epidemic of our times. A hospital in Bronx offers a revolutionary, simple solution: love.
Help doesn’t come when or how we want it, but it’s there. You can always find Three Good Things.
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…
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.
In which we address the elephant in the room and the million dollar question: What happened AFTER the baths?
Awkwardness! Confusion! Doubt! Our time in the baths was the beginning of the story, not the end.
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.