Download or read book Confounding the Wise A Celebration of Life Love Laughter Adoption and the Joy of Children with Special Needs written by Dan Kulp and published by Wordcrafts Press. This book was released on 2015-05-07 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ""Dan and his wife put their money where their mouth is. We don't need more people talking about Jesus, we need more people BEING Jesus. This book shows what that can look like in real time."" - Brad Stine, "God's Comic" Children with special needs are not always given to those who are both willing and able to meet their needs. But here we discover there are people who will seek sacrifice in order to provide the life that so many are willing to discard. Confounding the Wise describes the sometimes brutal view that many countries have toward Down syndrome and other diagnoses. Herein also is the story of unconditional love for children who so desperately need those who are willing to give it. Confounding the Wise is a poignant description of ministry, compassion, understanding and the determination of one family to be in the Lord's service.
Download or read book Count It All Joy written by Kathleen Murray PhD and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2015-08-11 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lifes lessons are often learned in the most unexpected circumstances. Count It All Joy chronicles Kathleen Murrays candid account of her inner struggles after learning about her sons diagnoses of Down syndrome, autism, and a congenital heart defect. Through heart-wrenching honesty and humorous self-inspection, Kathleen presents the option to choose joy in the face of challenging circumstances in order to live a life of contentment and hope. Kathleen goes from having difficulty looking into the eyes of her newborn child to endless moments of true inner peace in cherishing and appreciating the beauty and wonderment of her son with special needs. Count It All Joy is a powerful memoir of revelation and transformation, brimming with insight and learning opportunities to galvanize caregivers to find joy amidst difficulties. It is a life-altering meditation about the journey of a special family that will make you laugh, cry, and deeply touch your hearta journey toward unity, happiness, humility, and most of all, unconditional love.
Download or read book Love Laughter Tears written by Debbie Eddy and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2014-11-26 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Love, Laughter & Tears is a book that draws you into Debbie and Larrys lives with a blended family of five children. You will find yourself laughing and crying as you relate. Each chapter draws you into the trials and tribulations they experienced and conquered with Gods help. They had to learn to stretch as they grew through past hurts! Nothing is impossible with their God. Their love continues to grow after 36 years of marriage. In these pages you will find: the humor of two families becoming one, the enemy attempts to destroy, helping others in time of their own needs, testimonies of the greatness of God, finding a secret place, blessings of mission trips, learning to nail rebellious grandchildren to the cross, and the Joy that does come. Debbie Eddy is an author that loves to share her heart of lifes interesting trials, with a twist of humor. She is able to express honest truth of how we humanly deal with our problems and how God uses them to train and grow us up by His spirit. People always say to her, I came to you because you will tell me the truth, no matter how much it hurts! Debbie has taught children and childrens workers in the local church and mission field. She has taken counseling and childrens writing courses. Debbie is an Ordained Minister of the Gospel, teaching, preaching, anointed of the Holy Spirit and moving in the God given gifts of intercession, deliverance, exhortation and prophecy.
Download or read book Not Exactly as Plaaned A memoir of Adoption Secrets and Abiding Love written by Linda Rosenbaum and published by Demeter Press. This book was released on 2014-10-01 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Not Exactly As Planned is a captivating, deeply moving account of adoption and the unexpected challenges of raising a child with fetal alcohol syndrome. Linda Rosenbaum’s life takes a major turn when her son, adopted at birth, is diagnosed with irreversible brain damage. With love, hope and all the medical knowledge she can accumulate, she sets out to change his prognosis and live with as much joy as she can while struggling to accept her new reality. Not Exactly As Planned is more than a story of motherlove. It’s about birdwatching, bar mitzvahs, the collision of ’60’s ideals with the real world, family secrets and woodcarving.
Download or read book Even in the Hard Stuff written by Meredith Cornish and published by . This book was released on 2021-11-30 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When disability, past trauma, and medical concerns each complicate the other, the solution is always a process. Meredith shares their story of overcoming and adapting to new challenges as she and Michael raise their fourteen adopted and biological children. Told from a Christian perspective and focused on the power of God and prayer, Meredith shares the roller coaster of emotions that they traveled through with terminal diagnosis, working through medical crisis, celebrating the joys of successes, and the ongoing challenges of raising children who have hard pasts. Meredith presents practical ways to work through difficulties with trauma, developmental delays, or medical needs in the home, church, and community. She describes experience-based skills within the story of their family. For adoptive or special needs parents, pastors investing in the disability community, and anyone who wonders what a large, adoptive, special needs family might look like from the inside, this book is written from the perspective of sharing the hard, with a realistic outlook and strong reliance on the knowledge that God is good, even in the hard stuff.
Download or read book Forever With Love and Smiles written by Lisa Joy and published by Dog Ear Publishing. This book was released on 2016-08-04 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lisa Joy Walters is a revered expert in the field of Special Education. For over 25 years she has served as an excavator of the inherent strengths and abilities of children within the spectrum of special needs. Lisa Joy has built a bridge for each unique child to grow beyond “labeled deficiencies” used in our diagnostic system, to emerge and flourish as shining members of their own families and communities. With her own spirited blend of quality therapeutic and educational services, Lisa Joy incorporates leading edge teachings, beneficial to the many children and families who will be ensured with the greatest opportunities for success. Lisa Joy has a long history of leading children and families by the hand to very bright futures. Development beginning in early intervention, parent training, one to one in homes and emerging families into the world, Lisa Joy has trusted intuitive guidance for the highest good of all involved.
Download or read book Bundles of Joy written by Janice D. Brown and published by . This book was released on 2018-11-30 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a child, Janice Brown looked forward to a happy and rewarding life, never picturing that one day, after the births of two of her children, she would be taken down a road of heartbreak, trials, disappointments, and rewards greater than she ever imagined. In her candid, true account of the joys and trying times of being the mother of two special gifts from heaven, Brown recalls her journey through life. She married her childhood sweetheart, eagerly awaited the arrival of their first baby, experienced the joy of birth―and then received a diagnosis that changed her life forever. As she details how she learned to care for not one, but two severely and profoundly brain-damaged children, Brown shares how she and her husband learned to lean on their faith and on each other as they faced an uncertain future filled with challenges. In their lives, a battle between encouragement and discouragement raged. Even so, Brown and her husband never wavered from following the Lord's plan as they loved, nurtured, and celebrated the successes, both great and small, of all their children. Bundles of Joy is the heartwarming account of one mother's trials and triumphs as she learned to care for her two special-needs children with love, hope, and, most importantly, God's grace.
Download or read book Joy Comes in the Morning written by Angela Tipton-Huss and published by . This book was released on 2023-01-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book chronicled one family's journey together in the realm of special needs adoption. It will give the reader a clear look into the lives of a family with a love for these children as well as the lives of the unique individuals who live life with disabilities. Angela is a loving wife and mother of eight beautiful children. Six have special needs. Throughout her ministry and life, she has lost three children and battled cancer multiple times. Her most recent battle with stage 3 invasive breast cancer has strengthened her faith in God. She enjoys reading, crocheting, gardening, and canning. She is an avid mentor and advocates for those who are disabled and their families. She is a Christian counselor, author, and speaker.
Download or read book Joy Comes in the Morning written by Angela Tipton and published by . This book was released on 2007-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book chronicles the story of one family's journey together in the realm of special needs adoption. It will give you a clear look into the lives of a family with love for children as well as the lives of the unique individuals who live life with disabilities. You will see the impact they have had on the author's life as well as others. Their journey has been long and at times treacherous. This book walks you through the joys and perils of parenthood, adoption, and our individual search for faith. As the author introduces you to the special people in her family you will feel encouraged and will learn the important life lessons these unique individuals can teach you. Her prayer is that you will encounter God in an amazing way that will bring you to a stronger faith in your Heavenly Father. The reader will be encouraged, taught and drawn to a deeper faith and dependency on God. This family's story is emotion provoking, challenging and life changing.
Download or read book Experiencing God Day by Day written by Henry T. Blackaby and published by B&H Publishing Group. This book was released on 2016-10 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 365-day devotional based on the modern classic Experiencing God by Henry Blackaby.
Download or read book The Effects of Early Social Emotional and Relationship Experience on the Development of Young Orphanage Children written by The St. Petersburg-USA Orphanage Research Team and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2009-04-27 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Undertaken at orphanages in Russia, this study tests the role of early social and emotion experience in the development of children. Children were exposed to either multiple caregivers who performed routine duties in a perfunctory manner with minimal interaction or fewer caregivers who were trained to engage in warm, responsive, and developmentally appropriate interactions during routine care. Engaged and responsive caregivers were associated with substantial improvements in child development and these findings provide a rationale for making similar improvements in other institutions, programs, and organizations.
Download or read book Baxter s Explore the Book written by J. Sidlow Baxter and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2010-09-21 with total page 1846 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explore the Book is not a commentary with verse-by-verse annotations. Neither is it just a series of analyses and outlines. Rather, it is a complete Bible survey course. No one can finish this series of studies and remain unchanged. The reader will receive lifelong benefit and be enriched by these practical and understandable studies. Exposition, commentary, and practical application of the meaning and message of the Bible will be found throughout this giant volume. Bible students without any background in Bible study will find this book of immense help as will those who have spent much time studying the Scriptures, including pastors and teachers. Explore the Book is the result and culmination of a lifetime of dedicated Bible study and exposition on the part of Dr. Baxter. It shows throughout a deep awareness and appreciation of the grand themes of the gospel, as found from the opening book of the Bible through Revelation.
Download or read book Hospitious Adoption written by James L. Gritter and published by CWLA. This book was released on 2009 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jim Gritter's third book for CWLA examines the next step after open adoption. Building on his previous books, which promote the inclusion of birthparents, Gritter takes the approach that practicing goodwill, respect, and courage within the realm of adoption makes the process move smoother and enriches children's lives.
Download or read book Blindsight written by Peter Watts and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2006-10-03 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hugo and Shirley Jackson award-winning Peter Watts stands on the cutting edge of hard SF with his acclaimed novel, Blindsight Two months since the stars fell... Two months of silence, while a world held its breath. Now some half-derelict space probe, sparking fitfully past Neptune's orbit, hears a whisper from the edge of the solar system: a faint signal sweeping the cosmos like a lighthouse beam. Whatever's out there isn't talking to us. It's talking to some distant star, perhaps. Or perhaps to something closer, something en route. So who do you send to force introductions with unknown and unknowable alien intellect that doesn't wish to be met? You send a linguist with multiple personalities, her brain surgically partitioned into separate, sentient processing cores. You send a biologist so radically interfaced with machinery that he sees x-rays and tastes ultrasound. You send a pacifist warrior in the faint hope she won't be needed. You send a monster to command them all, an extinct hominid predator once called vampire, recalled from the grave with the voodoo of recombinant genetics and the blood of sociopaths. And you send a synthesist—an informational topologist with half his mind gone—as an interface between here and there. Pray they can be trusted with the fate of a world. They may be more alien than the thing they've been sent to find. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Download or read book Practical Tools for Foster Parents written by Lana Temple Plotz M.S. and published by Boys Town Press. This book was released on 2010-12-22 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New or experienced foster parents as well as grandparents and other relatives caring for a child forced from home by a crisis will find help and hope in Practical Tools for Foster Parents.More than half a million children today live in out-of-home care, and many have special problems. The need for well-trained, loving foster parents has never been greater. In this book, Boys Town® offers these committed foster parents the professional tools they need, not only to care for foster children but to actually help them get better.Our approach to foster care focuses on building relationships with children, teaching them skills, and empowering them by teaching self-discipline and self-control. Inside, foster parents will find effective, research-based solutions for these common concerns:•Building a warm, trusting relationship with a foster child who still may have a strong attachment to his or her original family.•Working with the foster child's parents, who may be uncooperative or even hostile.•Creating a safe environment for your foster child, you, and your family.•Respecting your foster child's ethnic and cultural background, while teaching the child skills to help him or her succeed in the larger world.•Learning how to handle "blow ups" and prevent and correct misbehavior while you stay calm.•Teaching your foster child how to stay under control, solve problems, and make good decisions, even when he or she is angry or frustrated.•Handling transitions when a foster child moves to another placement or returns home.
Download or read book Designed for Joy written by Owen Strachan and published by Crossway. This book was released on 2015-07-15 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Male and female he created them.” —Genesis 1:27 It’s one of the most important—and controversial—topics of our time. God created men and women in his image—equal in value and complementary in roles. These distinctive roles are not the vestiges of a bygone era, but integral to God’s timeless good design for humanity. Designed for Joy includes fresh contributions from fourteen young leaders, casting a unified vision for Christian manhood and womanhood. Whether discussing the significance of gender, the truth about masculinity and femininity, the blessing of purity, or the challenge of raising children in a confusing world, this practical resource challenges us to embrace God’s good design—for his glory and our joy.
Download or read book Brothers We are Not Professionals written by John Piper and published by B&H Publishing Group. This book was released on 2013 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Piper pleads with fellow pastors to abandon the professionalization of the pastorate and pursue the prophetic call of the Bible for radical ministry.
