The medical prognosis for Sarah Young is not good. Still in her mother’s womb, Sarah suffers from complications that threaten to impair her life. Her parents, Alan and Kendra, have chosen to keep their daughter and give God a chance to do a miracle. Here are some of the words from the expectant parents: We…
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I Couldn’t Change My Son
by J. Grant Swank, Jr. When my wife and I adopted Jay, he was two-and-a-half months old. The only details we knew about his birth parents were some medical specifics provided by his birth mother to the social worker. Bringing Jay into our family was such a joy. We were rightly proud the first…
Read moreLessons from Shela
We’re never too old to learn from our children. by Lettie Kirkpatrick Burress “Your daughter has a terminal muscle disease. She will never walk or gain strength but will weaken progressively. She has only six months to a year to live.” This pronouncement came from a doctor on Shela’s first birthday. As it turned…
Read moreHurricane John
by Marcia Alice Mitchell Fierce wind bowed the tree tops and buffeted the vines that grew against our house. I snuggled in our warm living room and watched Hurricane Carol destroy the familiar and redesign our street to a new beauty. At age eleven I loved storms, but this was my first hurricane. Before…
Read moreWhat is an attachment disorder?
What is an attachment disorder? . . . a condition in which individuals have difficulty forming loving, lasting, intimate relationships. Though attachment disorders vary in severity, individuals lack the ability to show genuine affection to others. They typically fail to develop a conscience and do not learn how to trust. Symptoms of attachment disorder Superficially…
Read moreHow Autism Changed My Life
A mother helps others by helping her son. by Laura Corby as told to Genetta Adair I’m not the same person I was eight years ago. That’s when my son with autism, Chad, was born. Although my husband, Wayne, and I had already experienced an autism spectrum disorder with our firstborn, Lexi, we hadn’t…
Read moreHomeschooling: Getting Started
by Terri White In recent years, an “old original” has made a phenomenal comeback. Home schooling, an educational movement with roots that date to colonial times, remains legal in every state today. Many great leaders, such as John Quincy Adams, William Penn, Thomas Edison, Woodrow Wilson, Franklin D. Roosevelt, General George Patton, and General…
Read moreHomeschooling: Recommended Reading
Books Ballman, Ray. The How and Why of Home Schooling. Crossway Books. 1987. Fugate, J. Richard. What the Bible Says About . . . Child Training. Aletheia Publishers. 1980. Leman, Dr. Kevin. Making Children Mind Without Losing Yours. Dell Publishers. 1984. Moore, Dr. Raymond. Home Grown Kids. Word Publishers. 1981. Moore, Dr. Raymond. Home School…
Read moreHelp for Dysfunctional Families
by Dale Lawson “I don’t want to influence my children in religion. I want them to make up their own minds.” This philosophy prevails in our society — to our undoing. Families guided by it rapidly slip into dysfunction, because parental example greatly impacts children and their choices, whether intentionally or not. Negative attitudes,…
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Surrendering to divine priorities. by Crystal Kupper Please be wrong, I begged the pregnancy test. It’s too early! It was my twenty-second birthday, and this was the last present I wanted. Panic flooded my mind: What about the graduate school application I had been completing minutes earlier? What would my husband think? Was I…
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