The College Girl

College...classes, grades, friends, fun, leaving home and getting a job.

We were so very blessed that many came to find their job at our home.
Some came to give to us, others needed what we could give to them.

College girls are energetic, joyful, strong and willing to learn!

How to feed.
How to bath.
How to do range of motion.
How to deal with seizures.
So much to learn for someone so young.

Our daughter only knew hands that played, touched and cared. 
She only had total acceptance to give. 
She never rejected or judged she only smiled and loved.

What did they learn from our family, our home, our struggles.
What did they take with them as they launched into their own lives.
How will God use the experiences they had with our special child?

Will God give them a child with only a few needs or a child as severe as ours
when they have a family of their own?

Will they ever meet another person with a disability or will they have
extra love for each one they meet whether on the street or in the church?

How will God use this ministry in our home?
So many helpers, so many hours, so much blessing, so much stress.

Yes!  The Lord knows how each one will need this knowledge.
This knowledge of valuing a person no matter what that person can do.
This knowledge of what is really important in this world full of walking,
talking human beings.

Is she human?  She can't care for herself in even the smallest detail.
Left alone she would die.
This dependency, this innocence is hard to see as a gift of love.
Can they see the eternal lessons?

The smiles, the sounds of joy that only she can give make their way to
each heart that enters our door.  Many young women have a special love for her.
This love will then abound more and more and touch others as they go on in life.

The value of human life.
The worth of a person.
The joy that can come from one that is so helpless.
These are the things that she has taught each girl who has come to our home.

Maybe Jesus meant for her to teach them in a lesson of humanity
that no one else could teach.

Maybe Jesus has used her to teach much harder, much more important
lessons.....eternal lessons in unconditional love and acceptance.

I wonder what God will do in each life?




Psalm 139: 13-16
"For it was You who created my inward parts; You knit me together in my mother's womb.
I will praise You because I am unique in remarkable ways.
Your works are wonderful, and I know this very well.  My bones were not hidden from You
when I was made in secret, when I was formed in the depths of the earth.
Your eyes saw me when I was formless; all my days were written in Your book and planned
before a single one of them began."