You want to help but you don't know how.
Disabilities Ministry is not really your "thing".
Maybe you should just leave it to the people with experience.
I hear you--I really do.
I hear you--I really do.
But please don't.
You see the people with the highest level of experience...they're the ones who need you most.
True, there are "experts" in the medical world.
Doctors. Scientists. Wonderful people who devote their entire lives to finding causes, treatments and (hopefully) cures.
Leave that stuff to them.
Leave that stuff to them.
But these sweet families aren't looking for us to cure their precious child of whatever disability they happen to have.
They aren't looking to us for answers.
What they need is someone to come alongside them and acknowledge that the pain they are feeling, the sense of loss, the sleepless nights...are all real. And totally justified.
Someone who realizes their child is "different, not less" (my favorite quote from Temple Grandin!).
Someone who realizes their child is "different, not less" (my favorite quote from Temple Grandin!).
Lately I've been struggling with why God put this on my heart and why He has allowed me to speak on behalf of families going through things that I know. nothing. about!
Why on earth has He given ME this passion?
But I'm also realizing the unique position I'm in.
Sometimes it's down right scary to speak on behalf of yourself and your own family.
Because those words...not just words at all.
They're little windows into your heart.
So as long as I am given opportunities to share--I'll keep sharing. And I'll keep encouraging people to take a look at their own life and everyone in it. Think you don't know anyone touched by special needs? Think again.
I can almost guarantee it.
Want to make ministering to those families your "thing"?
Start here.
-Cassi
