This is a companion piece for the guest blog I posted earlier today. This chapter appears in “Autism & Alleluias” (Judson Press, 2010), and “A Place Called Acceptance” (Bridge Resources, 2001). For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall understand fully, even [...]

One Saturday evening 5 years ago, we were sitting in the pew with our four children at Mass. During the consecration, the priest held up the host and repeated the words of Jesus: “Take this all of you and eat.” The word “all” resonated in the spacious church and we realized that our 7-year-old daughter [...]