How to Show Respect to a Person With Autism
Editor's Note: The suggestions below come to us from Krista Mason, the mother of a child who has autism. She is the...
How to Show Respect to a Person With Autism
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Older People Have Ears and Feelings
Older People Have Ears and Feelings
Do we sometimes forget that older people have ears and feelings? Please remember that even though an elderly person...
What To Say When Someone Is Crying
What To Say When Someone Is Crying
Kim Hamer says, "What a person needs when going through a crisis is a witness. They need someone to acknowledge the fact that what they are going through is very difficult. Their life is crappy. They need you to be their witness."
What do you say when someone is crying? You could say:
Talk Less, Listen More.
Talk Less, Listen More.
What is the best way to help someone who is feeling low, struggling emotionally or perhaps even clinically...
How To Care For A Person Who Has Been Abused
How To Care For A Person Who Has Been Abused
If you want to help a person who has been sexually abused listen to the wisdom of Hebrews 13:1-4, which tells us to...
My Baby Died
My Baby Died
How are we supposed to respond to people’s pain? What are we supposed to say to someone who lost a child? Kendra...
Call Her. Call Him.
Call Her. Call Him.
Pick up that 200 pound phone and call her!
Recently, I was causally reading Anne Lamott’s new book, Help Thanks Wow—and the following words jumped off the page, confronting me. Here are those words:
“God must love to hear us calling our meth-head cousin just to check in because no one else in the family speaks to him.”
So, Ann says,” I picked up the two-hundred pound phone, dialed his number, and said, “How are you?”
One Hour to Live
One Hour to Live
Author Stephen Levine asks the question, “If you had an hour to live and could make only one phone call—who would you call, what would you say, and why are you waiting?" Stephen continues, “Who knows what we are waiting for? Perhaps we want to believe we will live forever, or that “someday” we will get around to telling the people we love, just how much we love them. Whatever the reasons, most of us simply wait too long. "
