Reality Check

The family and I went to Orlando this weekend and like most trips you take as a parent, they are not as easy as you envision them before you go. Kelly and I were attending a conference put on by an organization called "The Family Cafe". Family Cafe is an organization that helps all different kinds of people with special needs. The conference was put on at the Colorado Springs Resort with Disney World. Staying anywhere in Disney World is like going to a movie. Once you buy the ticket to get in, they charge you as much as humanly possible for the food, because they know you are not going to leave. While we were there I was reminded of a couple of things that I want to share.



When you become a parent of a child with special needs you suddenly feel like know one can possible understand what your circumstances are like. I was reminded this weekend that not only are the circumstances that surround my life no where near as limiting or cumbersom as most people, but that those circumstances have not defined our family, they have pointed us in the direction Christ wants us to go.



On the way back from the conference, which by they way we left a night early so we would get a good nights sleep in our own beds, my children were listening to the song, God is bigger than the Boogieman, by Veggie Tales. One of the verses in the song says, God is bigger than the Boogieman, he's bigger than Godzilla and the Monsters on TV. My daughter who is all of 6 and as sharp as a knife, proceeds to tell Kelly and I that she knows what a Godzilla is. "Godzilla is a bad God". Kelly then goes on to explain, Godzilla is not a God at all, but a lizard like monster in a movie. The conversation then morphs into Hannah asking Kelly, "Are his hands big enough to hold the whole world?" Who's hands Hannah? "Well God's silly".



The reason I mention both of theses reminders is that even though we feel that our lives are so hard and that we have know idea what is coming next, or how we're going to survive the situation were in. God is going to show you what your life could be like and then he will remind you through the most simple and innocent of situations that it is all in his hands.



"Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase."

Martin Luther King Jr.