Again, I find it difficult to be taken care of and rarely acknowledge it, and every act he does registers, but I also just need to verbally acknowledge him and hug him.

I have to keep reminding myself: If you give your life to God, he doesn't promise you happiness and that everything will go well. But he does promise you peace. You can have peace and joy, even in bad circumstances.

A woman experiencing an unplanned pregnancy also deserves to experience unplanned joy.

I'm always dissing Ray and making fun of him, talking about his money.

God will open any doors he wants to open, and if He closes doors, that's fine, too.

It's hard enough to work and raise a family when your kids are all healthy and relatively normal, but when you add on some kind of disability or disease, it can just be such a burden.