In the years that I helped out with the local Joni & Friends chapter, there was a story that was shared to help explain what it was like to have a baby with special needs. Preparing to have a baby was likened to planning a trip to Italy. But those chosen to have a child with disability get to their destination and find themselves in Holland instead. They have to choose to see the beauty in their actual location instead of the one that they always dreamed of. This story keeps running through my head lately. But we have not been given a life affected by special needs. My plot twist involves the expectations of raising kids in a Christian home. Was I too ambitious? I thought I had realistically planned for the "Holland." I didn't think I had camped on the idyllic Italian outcome. I knew things wouldn't be perfect - I knew I'd have to content myself with tulips and windmills over gondolas and Venetian masterpieces. But this... This feels like g...
"These days, the closer she looks at her life, the more beauty she sees. There is something worth noticing everywhere."