Deus Misereatur

The Loving Push: How Parents and Professionals Can Help Spectrum Kids Become Successful Adults by Debra Moore My rating: 5 of 5 stars Most parents grapple with how to guide their children into a valuable and viable adulthood. Through all of my years of parenting and my time of consoling and counseling many parents in churches where I have pastored, this is a steady stream of stress. But add to this the particular struggles of autism, and the frustrations and feelings of futility can be greatly exacerbated. To restore hope and rebuild courage in parents with children on the spectrum comes a new 288 page paperback. “The Loving Push: How parents and professionals can help spectrum kids become successful adults” has co-written by Dr. Temple Grandin, author, professor and lecturer who is on the spectrum; and Dr. Debra Moore, author and psychologist who has worked with many clients dealing with HFA and Asperger’s. As the authors state, they “want to increase the odds that your child grow...

Sunday morning: Our Father, you are the LORD, and there is no other. You form the light and create darkness; you make peace and create calamity (Isaiah 45.7); you, O LORD, do all these things that all may know from the rising of the Sun to its setting that there is none besides you. It is to you that we come and pray, in the strength of the Spirit and the righteousness of Christ Jesus. Rebuild and build up peace, order and justice in the nations of the world, especially North and South Korea, Mexico, Egypt, Taiwan, and Azerbaijan, so that the peoples may live safely, thrive, and hear the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Bring relief to those in our country who have been hit hard by financial woes; give our elected and appointed leaders shrewdness and perseverance for reining in our debt that we may not misuse our future; govern the decisions of our judges to eschew immorality and inequality; cause the hearts of the inhabitants of this nation to move toward prudent level-headedne...