Parenting Children with Disabilities, God's Grace for Today and the Gift of the Un-know (Interview with Laura Wifler)

The Intentional Parents Podcast

Intentional

Christianity, Kids & Family, Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 17 May 2023

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

We have the executive director for the non-profit Risen Motherhood and talented Author Laura Wifler, on today's show. This interview is a sweet and transparent conversation about children with disabilities. Laura shares stories from her own life about how God has used motherhood, in particular mothering a child with disabilities, to transform her, as well as her family and her ministry. She has a beautiful purpose to help create conversations, normalize disabilities, and train others to interact with people of all ages with disabilities. We hear how Laura educates her kids through great family phrases and helpful heart-to-heart conversations. Laura gives us some wise advice in handling the complexities of being in a family with disabilities, and she speaks to the grace God gives us each day. We also explore the healthy practice of holding grief, sorrow, hope, and joy. We hope today's show is an encouragement to families that have members with disabilities and to help serve as an education to those who don't. Enjoy!

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0:00.0	We have an invitation for you.
0:08.6	We want to invite you to the first ever intentional motherhood retreat.
0:13.9	We want to invite you to join us for a three day retreat of being given to.
0:18.3	We know and live the beautiful challenge of motherhood.
0:21.8	We know the feelings of aloneness, of inadequacy, of fear, of weariness that so often waist
0:28.3	down in the midst of all it means to be a mother.
0:31.6	We've designed this retreat with your needs in mind.
0:34.7	Your need for connection with like-minded women, your need for gentleness of spiritual formation,
0:40.6	and ultimately your need to be strengthened for the task of motherhood.
0:44.8	How long has it been since someone?
0:47.7	Anyone really poured into you.
0:50.2	We know the answer too long, if ever, as a mom you give and give and give until there's
0:56.3	nothing left.
0:58.2	So come to where we live in Bend, Oregon, a place of startling beauty, a place to come
1:03.0	away from it all.
1:04.7	Come with your best friends, your sister, your mom, come together or come alone.
1:09.7	It was Dallas Willard who said, if you don't come apart for a while, you'll come apart
1:14.9	after a while.
1:16.7	So come, come apart with us for a while.
1:19.9	Join us October 5th through 7th here in Bend, Oregon.
1:23.7	All the details are in the show notes.
1:28.2	Welcome to the Intentional Parents Podcast.
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