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Our friend Dave was in critical condition when I had my first heart-to-heart conversation with my new friend, Catherine. She listened well, offered hope—woven with empathetic words, and committed to pray for my wounded friend…whom she’d never met

My literary agent, Blythe Daniel, and her mother have written a book that addresses mother/daughter relationships. Today, Helen and Blythe, mother of two daughters, have a close and healthy mother-daughter bond, but it came through repairs. (we couldn’t believe that we didn’t have any squabbles about who should write what in the book or that we didn’t hit a snag with something the other wrote in the manuscript) and we are inspired to help share the deeper relationship with Christ that a mom or daughter can have when she walks through our book – that is our ultimate goal and hope. Young moms who want to parent a daughter well but have not had a good model – Moms who don’t know why they can’t relate to their daughter (or how to) and want help.

There are lovely articles written from parents’ perspectives, about raising children with Down Syndrome, but this year, I am writing about the gift of having a sibling with special needs. When Brian was born, and in those early years, my mom was concerned about the effect on the rest of the family, in having a child with special needs. You might also like: Learn more about Brian here World Down Syndrome Day, Positivity, and My Brother What It’s Like Having a Sibling With Down Syndrome

Whether you joined us for the sugar fast, or not, I hope this devotional (from the 40 Day Sugar Fast), on Matthew 23, will inspire you to live out an authentic faith, not a hypocritical one. *Disclosure: Affiliate links are used in this post