This has been all over the pro-life interwebs this week, so you’ve probably seen it already. But if by chance you have not yet read about the little girl with Down syndrome who has become the ‘darling’ of the child modeling world in the UK, you’ll want to read this now. It’s easily the most wonderful story you will read … Read More
Does God Make People With Disabilities?
Click on the image below for another great “Ask Grace” episode answering a viewer who asks, “Why does God make people with disabilities? Is it just their cross to carry?” Previous: Don’t Run From Suffering; Run to the Cross
Pujols Family Foundation and a World Series Flashback – Go Cards!
Well, our legislature might suck here in Missouri, but our Cardinals sure don’t! Congratulations to the 2011 World Series Champions! I’m not a big baseball fan, myself, but even I couldn’t help getting a little excited (not a word I generally associate with baseball) after watching game 6 Thursday night. Game 7 wasn’t nearly as exciting, but I sure loved … Read More
The Task of Life
Earlier this month, the UK Daily Mail ran what is truly one of the most disturbing things I’ve ever read. It’s one woman’s first-hand account of how she helped her mother dehydrate to death. At the age of 88, paralysed, incontinent and unable to speak following a series of small strokes, her mother had had enough. She wasn’t dying. She … Read More
Better Off Dead?
Today Judie Brown re-published on her blog a post I wrote a few years ago here on mine. It’s was a response to two articles debating whether a set of conjoined twins “deserved to be born” (not really “euthanasia” as I originally said in the post, der. Should have said eugenics). Since the subject matter is still relavent today (both … Read More
“God Took the Burden of that Suffering Off of Us”
“(God) used that physical and mental and spiritual depletion to bring us to an end of ourselves and a place where we would have to depend on His strength instead of our own” -Greg Lucas: Wrestling With An Angel from Brian Patton on Vimeo. Yes, life is hard when you have a child with disabilities, but it is also very … Read More
Precious In His Sight…
This seems like a good way to start the week (h/t Aggie Catholics): This was grace – short film from Andrew Laparra on Vimeo. Related: Your Handicapped Child is a Blessing
No Arms, No Legs, No Problems: Congratulations, Nick Vujicic!!
Via Facebook yesterday, Nick Vujicic announced his engagement to this beautiful young lady!! What a good lookin’ couple! Congratulations, Nick and Kanae! May you be blessed with a lifetime of love together! Nick is a world renowned motivational speaker and author of Life Without Limbs. Last year he starred in The Butterfly Circus, a short film with a beautiful message … Read More
Lucas: Singing the Gospel
Lucas was born with Cerebral Palsy and his life is full of meaning and happiness: Read more about Lucas. Related: Study: most children with CP have same range of happiness/unhappiness as all children.
What Have I Been Tellin’ Ya?
Disabled people live very “normal”, happy, active lives – lives that include the joys of love, marriage, sex and babies…or they can when someone is willing to see the real person and not just the disability And we make very pretty brides, too! Check this gorgeous chick out: RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A year after she was paralyzed in poolside … Read More