Friday, June 13, 2008

This is Lauren

I was encouraged recently by a friend to share my testimony about my daughter, Lauren. At first I was a little hesitant, but as time as gone by I keep hearing this phrase over and over in my head. "I can't be the only apostolic parent with an autistic child. So, here I am sharing this with you...On this coming Monday, my daughter Lauren will be 6 years old. Even though she is over 4 feet tall and looks like a normal child she is in many ways just like a 2 years old. The sad part is, I know she knows what is going on around her. She is so smart. I have had therapists say, "It's like she is in there and she can't get out." This is very frustrating for a mother to hear. She is non-verbal and I can count on 1 hand the times she has called me Mom. Although there are many things stacked against her... I know a God who can do ALL things.In the past few years, we have been blessed to have many men of God tell us she will be healed. There is a man in Tennessee that stands in for her every service for her healing. A lady that attends my church has fasted every Wednesday since last summer. I'm sure there are others I am not aware of.... God is faithful I believe He will answer.Through all the therapies and drs appointments I have come up empty handed. Until this past year. It all started when the Lord moved us back home to Ohio. I was able to get her into the Children's Hospital in Cincy. There we finally had a diagnosis... she's in the spectrum. Alrighty then... it's about time! I say this because she was originally diagnosed with a Severe Global Developmental Delay at 18 months... that's fancy talk for " your daughter is really behind and we don't know why!" :)I'll spare you all of the gory details. But through a chain of events... a book from the library, a book my mother gave me last summer and a mother I met on an autism online support group. I was led to the one truth... we have gotten away from the one thing that could stop this from happening in the future... we are living out of balance with how God intended us to live. We eat and drink junk, get very little sleep, live in an environment that is poisoning us daily. There has to be a change... we have to get back to the basics of how God intended us to live.In the coming weeks I will blog about what is happening with Lauren and her treatments to remove the toxicity from her body. Eventually, I will post a video of a before and after. If I can figure out how to do this...lol!I know there is a reason for all of this. I may never know the full magnitude of this entire experience. But, I do know if Lauren's testimony can reach someone or bring someone hope. Well, then it will be worth it all.If you do have a child that is disabled in some way... don't give up hope! There is a God and He cares about you and the silent struggles you go through on a daily basis! He is with you in the quiet times when you don't think you can go on. He's with you when you are in the whirlwind of Dr appts and therapies. He is with you while you wait in a waiting room alone while your child in is surgery. He is with you when you have to come to grips with the cold reality that this is your life for however long it is meant to be.Hang in there... this too shall pass. Whether in this life or the next, it will pass!God Bless

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