It’s easier to hide. Honestly. It would be so much easier to hide at home, easier to let Thomas play on his device all day, easier to not try to preplan for every possible bit of extra simulation that could send him into an awkward and embarrassing (for me) melt down. Do you have situations in your life where it just feels easier to hide? But is easier better? No one lights a lamp and puts it in a place where it will be hidden, or under a bowl. Instead they put it on its stan

July 26 The Light of Autism I’ve often said that Thomas is a light for the love of Jesus. But that light, the light of Jesus that shines thru the lamp of autism has revealed things in my heart. Things that were hidden in secret corners. Honestly, things that may have stayed hidden without that bright, focused, disinfecting light that autism brought into my life. Things that led to a disconnect between what I SAID I believed about GOD and what my behavior DISPLAYED I believed

Cousins and risk-taking are a few of my kids’ favorite things.  At our last cousin-date, the gas powered go cart was dragged out. The cul-de-sac where the cousins live became a race track with cones to mark the boundary from the busy street. My son Thomas was jumping and flapping his hands with excitement while watching my eleven year-old nephew rip around the neighborhood race track like it was the Daytona 500. After a few turns around the track, my nephew asked Thomas if he