All God's Special Needs Kids.........

We see mess......we want order, perfection....

She sees an opportunity for fun.....

She sees no problem with playing in dead moldering mulchy leaves.........in her P.J.s

To her, the lines between work and play are blurred and everything becomes a game. Maybe we can all take some lessons from Lauryn.....

I was thinking about my niece this morning in the wee hours while I was praying for her.  She is in a special needs class at school mostly because she talked very late, and showed a few signs that have been attributed to Autism. I thought, we really are all God's special needs kids aren't we?

We walk around and nobody knows what we may be carrying inside......Burdens we carry, scars suffered along the way, we look and act just the same as everyone else, but really, we should all be in a special needs class.

Trying to recover from monumental loss and pain and not knowing how

Hurting from a divorce, reeling with the pain of rejection

Bravely taking care of everyone while you are screaming for help

Thinking you have everything figured out

Piling up success and accomplishment because the child in you still wants your parents to notice

We could all use help, all of us have problems and "special needs." We put kids in special needs classes because they are not making normal progress, they have developmental differences, but the truth is sometimes we all feel like we are not making normal progress, we get stuck. We can't go forward or back and we feel stagnant. We try to recover from blows that life deals us and we need help to know how to get back into the flow of what we call normalcy.

We have a God who specialises in taking care of our "Special Needs." The ones we all have......I am thankful today for so many times that He has helped bind up my wounds and set me back on the path of recovery, or sent others to do His work! I know many today who have excelled in school and life, but are broken beyond repair because of a trauma they never expected. I pray they seek healing from the only One who can. "The Spirit of the Sovereign LORD is on me, because the LORD has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim freedom for the captives and release from darkness for the prisoners," Isaiah 61:1

Thankful today for the simple joys too......playing in leaves, decking the halls for Christmas, conversations by firelight, good books in a cosy corner, prayers said in the dark, playing on my old school playground, dry places in the rain, hearing an eight year old laugh, watching her love her "babies", being able to see colored leaves as little miracles, Christmas music, humor in every situation, wonderful friends, evening in the park.......#560-#574

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