I closed every blind in my house. I closed every curtain. And I mourned for about two days.

And what I cried about was I needed to mourn that I lost the normal baby, that my life was not going to be a

white picket fence with a pretty house and going to the baseball diamond like we had dreamed.

Well, what an honest admission from the heart of Lisa Sexton about some very difficult circumstances in her life.

She was with us last time on Focus on the Family with Jim Daly describing a deep despair that she had

as she tried to cope with the diagnosis for her son, Tyler, of cerebral palsy.

And you're going to hear a second day of conversation today.

I love this story because there's so much hope and faith in it for a mother and a father who gave

birth to a child with special needs. And all those hopes that you heard in that clip, those dreams

that parents normally have, they were all dashed when

they realized their son would not measure up like every other young man. But you'll be encouraged

when you hear what happens next in the story that's coming. Lisa and her son, Tyler's story,

reminds us that we're all made in the image of God and that he cares

deeply about each of us. And he wants to draw you closer in the trials that you're facing.

Lisa and Tyler have captured so much of their story, the joys and the challenges of special needs

in a book called No Such Thing as Can't. Let's go ahead and listen to that second

part of the conversation. There was a story in your book that caught my attention where you

creatively took a doll in a down moment where Tyler was at emotionally that day.

Tell us what you did with the Burt doll.

Well, I want to encourage parents, too.

When you're desperate, desperation is not a bad thing sometimes.

If it's long term, it can be.

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