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

God deliberately chooses weak, suffering and unlikely candidates to get His work done, so that in the end, the glory goes to God and not to the person.

Perspective is everything when you are experiencing the challenges of life.

Oh, my goodness, when you're a mother and you just give birth to a child with spina bifida and -- or Down's Syndrome or cerebral palsy, there's a bit of a shock you're going to have to go through, a bit of an adjustment curve.

God always seems bigger to those who need him most. And suffering is the tool he uses to help us need him more.

Jesus went without comfort so that you might have it. He postponed joy so that you might share in it. He willingly chose isolation so that you might never be alone in your hurt and sorrow. He had no real fellowship so that fellowship might be yours, this moment. This alone is enough cause for great gratitude!

Contentment ... has an internal quietness of heart that gladly submits to God in all circumstances.