The “Thorn” of My Cerebral Palsy
Editor’s note: This is a guest post by Mike Matthews for a summer series highlighting great bloggers who focus on disability. Being a Christian and living with cerebral palsy is not an easy task. I often deal with friends who are nice but misguided. They are...
Mothers share the challenges and joys of raising a child with cerebral palsy
Raising a child with a disability is no easy task, there are challenges and joys in this journey. As we celebrate cerebral palsy day, here are the voices of four mothers, and what they would like you to know as they raise their children. “Elena is just a girl. A...
Man of Sorrows by Jenny Hill
Jenny Hill is a young woman with cerebra palsy. We have a mutual friend that connected us. As a mother of child with cerebral palsy, her insights, advice, and thoughts are treasures to me. But more than her journey with cerebral palsy, it is her faith that challenges...
When so much happens so quickly and you have to take a step back
I feel like a circus performer trying to juggle more balls than I can keep up in the air. It is a matter of time before I drop one, two, three, or all of them! It happens almost every year (usually in the summer, maybe because the kids are home from school and I have...
Adaptive swim-class
“I qui oh the way!” At our first adaptive swim-class, Nichole repeats the line from one of her favorite Barbie movies, “I am the queen of the waves!” Her speech is poor and she has a long way to go. But after a couple of laps around the pool, an older boy approaches...
Ellen Stumbo writes and speaks about finding beauty in brokenness with gritty honesty and openness. She's passionate about sharing the real – sometimes beautiful and sometimes ugly – aspects of faith, parenting, special needs, and adoption. Ellen’s writing has appeared on Focus on the Family, LifeWay, MomSense, Not Alone, Mamapedia and the Huffington Post.