Abundant Honor Ministries

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This was reposted by a former coworker whom I deeply respect. It captures the heart of every wise care giver to those with disability needs. Well worth your time to read... I don’t remember the exact moment my life was changed by someone with a developmental disability. The memories seem far away, blurry, as if they don’t belong to me. But this is what happens after you’ve been working with adults with developmental disabilities for years. You change. They don’t tell you th...Continue reading

Love believes all things, bears all things, hopes all things, endures all things. 1 Cor 13. Do you LOVE like Jesus loved? Can you learn to do this with those with special needs? It's what I need, it's what you need... it's what all of us need. Let's learn how to love by understanding better too..

Yesterday marked the 10th anniversary (is that the right term to use?) of the incident that would eventually lead us to forming Abundant Honor Ministries. July 2 was the day Jane was struck by a falling rock from Horsetail Falls in the Keystone Canyon just outside of Valdez Alaska. It has led to a bit of reflection for me over the last couple days as to where we have come since that time. I have been looking over old notes from Jane, pre-accident, post accident, notes from... others. I am struck just as one who has lost a loved one or has a child born with a disability never forgets that day and feels the world stop yet again as life continues for everyone else as if nothing happened. I am struck as I recollect an email I sent out to our mission prayer partners during that time. Many responses were warm and caring and we received loads of cards and letters and calls in the months following. Then there was responses to my heart ache from those who assumed I had perhaps lost my way in my faith because of the depth of grief I expressed from that letter. Some encouraged me to not give up, others thought I should be shipped off to therapy, as if that would somehow "fix" my/our loss. I have learned over the last decade that most folks, even those who seem to know Scripture have little capacity to absorb deep pain from others dealing with disability and maintain their Biblical worldview. Even though Jesus told us that suffering was to be expected as part of the core of walking with Him in this world, when it happens we scramble to do everything possible to suppress it, ignore it, fix it. What we don't want to do is embrace it. Jesus prayed in the garden, "If possible Lord let this cup pass from me, NEVERTHELESS NOT MY WILL BUT YOURS BE DONE". He embraced the suffering of the cross because He knew what the result would be. Aren't we supposed to see suffering in the same light? If our suffering can draw people to Jesus, to truth, to forgiveness for their sins, to hope for a better world than this one to look forward to, isn't that what we are supposed to be living and following Jesus for? Yes, suffering tears us down, I've studied Job and the Psalms and Lamentations and Jeremiah where people poured out their hearts, broken, bleeding inside from the pain and finding in that brokenness a path leading to the cross and to Jesus Himself. If they put words to their pain and have it recorded for us to see, identify with, cry in agreement with then why should we hide our pain? Perhaps someone might find hope through ours. That is what I want, whatever it takes cuz there is nothing this world has to offer that's better to do than offer hope... but not 'hope' for hopes sake, but Hope (ie Jesus Himself). It's all about Him... See more

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