117. Meeting Special Needs (with Elrena Evans)

How do you feel when you hear ‘special needs’? Does your mind fill with memories from someone you love with special needs? Do you get uncomfortable? Do you wish you knew more? On this episode of God Hears Her, Elrena Evans will talk with hosts Elisa Morgan and Eryn Eddy about what she faced when her son was diagnosed with special needs and how her world completely changed.

About Our Guest:

Elrena Evans is an executive editor of Paper&String, a digital care package celebrating faith, creativity, and beauty in its many forms. She is the author of a short story collection This Crowded Night, and Special Grace.

Notes and Quotes: 

• “Special education is taking something and presenting it in a different way.” –Elrena Evans 
• “When I said, ‘I don’t have any more hope,’ she said, ‘then I will hold it for you.'” –Elrena Evans
• “My dream is that one day the church will be the place where we can call with news of a diagnosis and say, ‘I don’t know what to do.'” –Elrena Evans
• “Written prayers give me words for when I have none.” –Elrena Evans 
• “Anything we are unfamiliar with, we get scared to ask questions. But that can make someone feel lonely.” –Eryn Eddy

Links: 

• Special Grace Elrena Evan’s book: https://www.ivpress.com/elrena-evans 
• God Hears Her website: https://www.godhearsher.org/
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• Elisa’s Instagram: elisa morgan author
• Eryn’s Instagram: eryneddy

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