🙌It's the Friday Call to Worship!🙌

We started a journey toward understanding our son's autism and nervous system disorder two years ago. We had all kinds of new limits to navigate but no rulebook to explain them. We found out what NOT to do through trial and error, but professionals don't have much advice on what TO do for our son's complex diagnosis. So we just stopped doing what didn't work for us and started doing what did.

Popular opinion says healthy families eat dinner together. We started connecting outside with balls and bikes instead of at the table. We decline party invitations and create celebrations in ways that works for us.

Our son turned five this week and loves the idea of birthdays, although he cannot metabolize sugar, anticipation or large-scale social events. We didn't tell him it was his birthday until it was time to go to school. He unwrapped "sports guy" clothes to wear and took a sugar-free cake to share with his small class. Later, we had a "party" with one friend and one heroic sports coach. It was perfect. He was able to stay present and be loved exactly as he is.

There's incredible freedom and an identity-sealing satisfaction when you release the world's rules of life. As children of God, we get to learn day-by-day when we walk with the Way, the Truth, and the Life Himself.

Let's worship the God who saw that His family wasn't working in the world, so He sent His only Son to banish the rulebook, carry the cross and become the Way so we we'd never have to be lost again. You can live the life you've been given because you've got abundant life flowing through your veins.

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