A father that I have come to know, love and respect has been sharing openly his family’s experience raising their son Jake, who has special needs. Much of what Greg shares is deeply personal and, in a good sense, raw. This morning he posted regarding the difficult decisions and transitions now working in his family.
I ask that you read all of his posts and reflect on the challenges the Lucas family and many others struggle through with grace and humility. But also to think of how many don’t have faith and thus do not have the greatest resource available to us all in the Gospel.
One final thought, families in the midst of these struggles do NOT need your pity. They do not want you to feel sorry for them. They do not want you to respond with the a “debtor’s ethic” of feeling that you owe them some encouragement. They DO need your love. Christ-centered, God glorifying, passionate and Gospel driven love. The deep love of Jesus in action. A love responding to the work of Christ in our lives and the need in the lives of those around us.
I John 3:16-18
“By this we know love, that he laid down his life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers. But if anyone has the world’s goods and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart against him, how does God’s love abide in him? Little children, let us not love in word or talk but in deed and in truth.”
Be blessed and challenged.
JDR
