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This week in my Bible reading, I started in Exodus.  My goal for 2018 was to read the Bible in a year-- and I have fallen a bit behind-- like 30 days behind.  Exodus 2 starts out with the birth of Moses.  Moses owes his life to 5 amazingly brave women. Shiphrad and Puah defied Pharaoh and saved hundreds of male babies.  Moses' sister, Miriam, was clever in fetching Moses' own mother to nurse him.  Moses's mother passed on great faith to her three children.  Most surprising, Pharaoh's daughter had compassion and rescued Moses and raised him as her own child.  Growing up in Pharaoh’s court, Moses was a man on the fast track to success.  Then something bad happens and he was on the run, fleeing from Pharaoh’s order to have him put to death (Exodus 2:15). He escaped to Midian, married Zipporah, had a baby boy, and helped look after his father-in-law’s flocks (Exodus 2:21 – 22; 3:1). In the midst of Moses’ everyday work as a humble shepherd, the angel...
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Dear Mama/Friend/Family Member/Complete Stranger, I see you staring at me as my 7-year-old is arguing with me that he  has  to have those cookies or he’ll die. I can almost hear your thoughts churning in your head, of how spoiled he is or that all he needs is some good discipline. When you saw us walking in to the store, when it was 35 degrees out, me in my warm socks and boots, and him in shorts, I know you were tempted to say something. In fact, you may have even let a comment or two slip out about it’s too cold to be wearing summer clothes. I get it. I really do, and in the past I too would have those same thoughts if I saw a child screaming in a store or repeating inappropriate words over and over. But now, since being blessed with my son and his unique set of challenges, I find myself saying a silent prayer for the frazzled parent I see standing next to their child, who’s hurling canned goods across the aisle. Because now I know: they’re just trying to hold it t...
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Our PANDAS testimony... We recently learned that our sweet boy is not suffering strictly from anxiety, OCD, tics and ADHD, but a more medically based issue called PANDAS.   Our adventure with PANDAS began in August 2016.  Jackson started school at Taft and after a week, he moved to a new classroom due to personnel changes.   One day in August 2016,  he became terrified to go to school, cried for an entire day, tried to run away from school, refused to sleep in his room, became belligerent and angry at home, started having urine accidents and encopresis at home and at school.  We noticed a significant change in his personality, but behaviors were attributed to his ADHD and changes including grief after the loss of his grandfather several months before.  His psychologist recommended medication.  We made frequent trips our family doctor to tweak his medication because it would work for a month or so and then intense behaviors would return for a ...
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