
Where Joy & Sorrow Co-exist
Having two children with profound intellectual disabilities has been challenging, rewarding and heart breaking for Andrea and Kirk, and at times they have felt unequipped to handle all that is required of them.
Each month I interview some amazing people with incredible stories of courage. It is my prayer that these stories will empower you to choose courage when you are faced with some “bigger than you” life struggles!
Having two children with profound intellectual disabilities has been challenging, rewarding and heart breaking for Andrea and Kirk, and at times they have felt unequipped to handle all that is required of them.
April struggled to accept the love of her Heavenly Father, when her earthly father was emotionally and physically abusive.
Tammy acknowledges that while things in her life didn’t always go as she had hoped or planned, God has taken all her pain and brokenness and turned it into something beautiful. She labeled her story as “The Gift of Disruption”
“Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming -WOW -What a Ride!!!”
Julie Rohr chose courage to fight each day to stay alive, after she was diagnosed with a rare incurable cancer.
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Photography & video editing:
Eric Hlookoff (Erichlookoff.com)
Additional Photography by:
Rick Carlson (DesignPics.com)
Jennilee Drisner (Selahreflections.ca)
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