Adopting a Child with Down Syndrome
Editor’s note: This is a guest post by Tina Salvador for a summer series highlighting writers who focus on disability. In this post Tina shares about adopting a child with Down syndrome. Our story is not the story of a family pregnant with a child and receiving...
Grace in Autism
Editor’s note: This is a guest post by Sarah Broady for a summer series highlighting great authors who focus on disability. Sarah shares an experience when she found Grace in autism. “Oh, no. Oh, no. Oh, noooo!!!!” The wails started within minutes after dinner...
My Life Doesn’t Have to Be Perfectly Organized
Editor’s note: This is a guest post by Bobbie Lynn Rider for a summer series highlighting writers who focus on disability. I rarely have a day that goes as planned. I may get the big things done, an appointment for example, but the little things go by the...
My Sister Has Down Syndrome and It’s Okay With Me
Editor’s note: This is a guest post by Ellie Stumbo, my daughter, for a summer series highlighting writers who focus on disability. This essay was published in the anthology, “Anything But Ordinary.” I was playing at church after a service when mom...
My Life Is Different, But It Is Good
Editor’s note: This is a guest post by Jenny Hill for a summer series highlighting great writers who focus on disability. I asked Ellen Stumbo if she could pose a question to me that I could mull over and compose an answer. Here is her question: As an adult...
Ellen Stumbo writes and speaks about finding beauty in brokenness with gritty honesty and openness. She's passionate about sharing the real – sometimes beautiful and sometimes ugly – aspects of faith, parenting, special needs, and adoption. Ellen’s writing has appeared on Focus on the Family, LifeWay, MomSense, Not Alone, Mamapedia and the Huffington Post.