My Costco Card

When I go in public, I am really

not thinking about my “identity”

as a Mom with a special needs,

adult child. We just ARE, and

we just DO...and there are times

I realize that we stand out a bit.

Especially, when she starts

expressing her displeasure.

The other day, the sweetest thing happened.

We went to get a Costco card,

and as I rolled Anna over to

the blue background in her wheel

chair, and stood to take my

photo...the man taking it said,

“Let me get both of you in the

picture...bend down, and look up”

I did...and he did...and I realized

something. My identity is

very much wrapped up in this

posture, of caring and loving this

daughter of mine. We have

become inseparable, and this does

have an effect on how I look

at life. Its fitting that she is

pictured with me, 

on my Costco card.:)

And the more ONE we become

with what others count as

limiting circumstances, the

greater view we have, as my

heart bows down, and looks up.

Really, its a beautiful view from

that position.  And as I proceeded to

walk through the store, I am thankful

that my Heavenly Father 

had this picture in mind for me

 from the beginning.   

You are never to complain of your birth, your training, 

your employments, your hardships; never to fancy that you could be something if only you had a different lot and sphere assigned you. God understands His own plan, and He knows what you want a great deal better than you do. The very things that you most deprecate, as fatal limitations or obstructions, are probably what you most want. What you call hindrances, obstacles, discouragements, are probably God's opportunities. Bring down your soul, or rather, bring it up to receive God's will and do His work, in your lot, in your sphere, under your cloud of obscurity, against your temptations, and then you shall find that your condition is never opposed to your good,

 but really consistent with it.~Horace Bushnell

"That's another truth that enables me to keep going.  Whatever strings are broken in our lives--we can still play beautiful music with what we have left.  In fact, it will be music that no one else can play in the the same way."

~ Joni Eareckson Tada