The Grace of Acceptance

Learning to accept the challenges and limitations of special needs children is a task that the child and family members constantly face. However, in the end, the grace of acceptance can be quite enlightening and can serve to foster our personal and spiritual growth as human beings. To finally accept the limitations of a child who was supposed to be imbued with endless possibilities is to learn to also accept the inherent limitations within ourselves and others around us. To understand that we all struggle with our limitations and fallibility is to finally embrace our true humanity.

From For the Love of Rachel: A Father's Story www.enalan.com

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Dena Straughn Oct 4, 2007, 3:59pm EDT

I would love to read Rachel's story. Will it be at Borders?

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micky d. Oct 4, 2007, 4:46pm EDT

The biggest obsticle for children that are outwardly physically different is for them not to accept the idea that they are not as capable as normal kids. Many times kids with physical handicaps feel they are not as good or intelligent as the "normal kid".

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David L. Oct 4, 2007, 4:55pm EDT

Hi Dena,
The book is available through the publisher at www.enalan.com or through Amazon.Com Best, David

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Therese P. Oct 5, 2007, 2:41am EDT

It was seeing the children with disabilites that saved my mom. No matter how hard life was daily, as a quariplegic mother of 5, she always remembered the children with polio in Warm Springs as being denied so much of life that she'd already enjoyed.

Someday her story will be on your book shelves.

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Yvonne F. Oct 5, 2007, 5:54am EDT

Well said my friend

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P C. Oct 6, 2007, 12:55pm EDT

I have a brother with Downes Syndrome. I believe he changed our whole family for the better. Although we grieve/d his disability, Who he is made us all better people.

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David L. Oct 6, 2007, 1:09pm EDT

Rachel has mild cerebral palsy, visual impairment and bilateral hearing aids but is the most beautiful, charismatic and loveable child imaginable. She has taught us more than we could have ever imagined.

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Laura H. Oct 29, 2007, 1:07pm EDT

Sounds like one I need to read, too. Would you mind posting this to accepting life group?

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Kimber L. Dec 10, 2007, 10:01pm EST

I admire my best friend angie who is so strong through all her daughter's surgeries. IT would be such a scary thing to not know if your child was going to live or not. I don't know if i would be strong enough to handle it. I know I would love my child and hope the love would carry me through the tough times

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