It always helps to know that other parents with special-needs children are surviving, and surviving well.

The truth of the matter is, Satan and God may want the exact same event to take place - but for different reasons. Satan's motive in Jesus' crucifixion was rebellion; God's motive was love and mercy. Satan was a secondary cause behind the Crucifixion, but it was God who ultimately wanted it, willed it, and allowed Satan to carry it out. And the same holds true for disease.

God's purpose in increasing our trials is to sensitize us to people we never would have been able to relate to otherwise.

God turns on its head one form of evil - suffering - in order to defeat another form of evil - that is, our transgressions. It happened at the cross, and it occurs in the lives of followers of Christ every day.

Maybe the truly handicapped people are the ones that don't need God as much.

Subdue your heart to match your circumstances.

It always helps to know that other parents with special-needs children are surviving, and surviving well.