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Yes, you saw the title of this post correctly. While it’s a great thing to compliment your spouse, I’m talking about something different here. In my dictionary, complement means “something that completes, makes up a whole, or brings to perfection.” In my book, He Made Us Better: A Story of Faith, Family, Friends (and Football) I tell about how my wife Sandra and I worked together pretty well as a team to care for our special-needs son Peter over…..
When I wrote my new book He Made Us Better: A Story of Faith, Family, Friends (and Football) about the 39-year journey with our special-needs son Peter, my primary purpose was to inspire and encourage people. And I really wanted it to get to those who especially needed some encouragement. Recently I’ve encountered some pretty convincing evidence that that’s already happening. My day job is being a freelance agribusiness writer. About three weeks ago, I was scheduled to attend…..
I was 27 and my wife 26 when our second son Peter was born with a serious birth defect. Looking back over the decades, we were just kids—kids who had just had a bomb dropped on us. I could write a book about the things I’ve learned in the intervening decades that would have been helpful to know. But here are just a few of the things that I wish the me of today could have told myself in those…..
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