The Presbyterian Church in America is the denomination our church is a part of. I grew up in this denomination with a daddy as a pastor. I love that the members of our churches are committed to Truth, live in Grace, and value people as made in the image of God.

Every year, the Women In the Church choose a ministry of the denomination as the recipient of “The Love Gift”. Women all over the country raise awareness and funds in their home churches and a gift is given at year’s end. This year The Love Gift recipient is a newer ministry – special needs. Of course, this ministry is close to my heart.

One of the families mentioned in the promotional video is a family living in Mississippi, the Smiths. Their son, Ben, has ACC (Agenesis of the Corpus Callosum). That’s the SAME brain malformation that our Little has! How odd it was to be watching the video and hear those words pronounced to the room.

You can see the short video here.

I am convinced that this is the next “people group” the Church must be committed to reaching. If the statistics are true and 1/115 children are diagnosed with Autism then just imagine how many families are touched by disabilities in the remaining 114 kiddos. They need to be loved. I can’t wait to see how our church jumps in to support this ministry! I’ll keep you posted.

If you want to read more about the Smiths and their life with Ben, click here and then click on The Smiths. You will quickly see how varied the symptoms of ACC are.

Sweet friends, Eric and Susan Zellner, were in town last week during their spring break. Eric went through seminary with Honey and Susan is one of my very favorite people. We all have too many children to get quality time as families in such a short visit, so we did the divide and conquer and our spirits were truly blessed. Eric and Honey spent time together Wednesday afternoon and Honey claims they were two of the fastest hours he can remember. Time flies when you’re being encouraged and challenged and LAUGHING!

Susan and I met at Starbucks and closed it down before heading back to my house for four more hours of talking and tears. Susan is a heart friend – those are rare. I am so thankful the Lord provided the time together and the stamina to make it through the next day after going to bed at 2:ooAM! It was worth the fatigue and I would drop everything to do it again.

Love you, Zellners.

KB and Bubba had appointments with the eye doctor this morning. I remembered last night. I forgot this morning. Until 8:15 AM. The appointment was at 8:30 AM.

Bubba and I were already dressed – he was supposed to catch the bus at 8:30 AM too. KB was in her jammies and kicked back watching Super Why when I went into crazed whirlwind mode (as you can imagine, this is Bubba’s favorite mode).

NO LIE – we walked into the doctor’s office at 8:32 AM! Everyone was dressed, there was a barrette in KB’s hair, and Bubba was actually calm. (The medicine must be working.)

What do we learn here?
My mind is going.
I am AWESOME under pressure.
Valet parking at St. John’s is a lifesaver.