“Listen to the mustn’ts, child. Listen to the don’ts. Listen to the shouldn’ts, the impossibles, the won’ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me … Anything can happen, child. Anything can be.” ~ Shel Silverstein
What is PunkinFutz Love? Well, it’s a company founded by an extraordinary person who gave up her secular job to love and serve God’s kids, starting with her own, and the rest is history. The person to whom I am referring is Lisa Radcliffe, founder of PunkinFutz. Her family business offers a unique brand of toys, accessories, and other products that are accessible to all children. All of the products are fun, encourage creative play, and are made in the United States by people with different special needs—just like Lisa’s two children. I encourage you to click here and learn more about their story and possibly help support their cause.
Acceptance is a difficult thing to achieve, especially when it involves children. Watching a child born with special needs is overwhelming and requires much love, support, and prayer. As a parent, you are powerless to change the present, but you can make a major difference in your child’s future. It starts with the BIG FOUR, trust in God, trust in science, trust in healthcare professionals, and deeply love your child.
Many learn to utilize the serenity prayer to help cope with the many challenges life dishes out. Through our many trials and low spots, sometimes what we discover are the things we can’t change end up changing us. This scenario is precisely what happened with Lisa Radcliffe and her family. What they couldn’t change in their children ended up changing their family and the lives of countless others forever.
When we look at a newborn baby, we don’t see anything but the precious reflection of God. They may suffer internally or externally, but we don’t judge them; we love them exactly how they enter the world. Our creator, our God, loves each of us in the same way. Despite our many hurts, habits, and hang-ups, God doesn’t judge; God loves. In return, God asks us to extend the same kind of to others that we would extend to a newborn child or a sick friend. When you see others the same way God sees them, you can’t help but love them despite their defects.
When you learn to accept the things you cannot change and allow what you cannot change to change you, you will be amazed at what God can do with your present circumstances. Whatever challenges you may face, pause, breathe, say the serenity prayer, and allow the unacceptable, the impossible, the unimaginable to change you so that you can glorify God, bless countless others, and help change the world. PunkinFutz in helping advance the Kingdom of God on earth as it is in heaven, and so can you, regardless of your present circumstances.
God of change and the Author of the impossible, thank You for making something extraordinary out of what seems to be an impossible situation. Your power and glory have no limits and know no boundaries. Please grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to changes the things I can, and the humility to allow what I cannot change to change me for Your honor and glory, all the days of my life. In Your Spirit and Name, I pray these things. May Your will and not mine always materialize, now and forever. Amen.
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