Unbroken Faith

Spiritual Recovery for the Special Needs Parent

Diane Dokko Kim

• Publisher: Worthy Publishing
• eBook ISBN:
  9781683971795
• Print ISBN:
  9781683971344

When a parent hears that their child has a disability, hearts and hopes are often broken. But faith doesn’t have to be.
 
In Unbroken Faith, Dianne Dokko Kim comes alongside you as a fellow special needs parent to help you reconcile the premise of a good God with the devastating realities of raising a disabled child. Kim courageously articulates deep-seated, unspoken doubts and fears you may have but are afraid to voice: Will my child still have a full life? Can I do this? Where is God in all this? As you are adjusting to your new normal, Kim’s biblical-based encouragement will help you understand that you are not alone, that God gets it, and that God’s Word is entirely relevant to the raw and messy yet hallowed spaces of special needs parenting. 

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• Foreword
• Introduction: “Just a Piece of Paper”
• 1. “Do Not Be Afraid!”: Good News, Great Fear
• 2. “What More Could I Have Done?”: When Children Don’t Turn Out as Expected
• 3. “This Is Not the Way It’s Supposed to Be!”: Wrecked: from Hallowed to Hollowed
• 4. “Where Do I Go with My Pain?”: Permission to Grieve
• 5. Angry “with” God: Leaning In, Not Away
• 6. “Don’t You Care, God?”: Writing Our Own Psalms
• 7. “Broken” Child, Broken Parent: Our Personal Peniel
• 8. “Did You Lead Us Out Here to Die?”: Trapped by the Impossible
• 9. “If Only You Had Done Something!”: Couldn’t vs. Wouldn’t
• 10. “Why Won’t You Fix This? Don’t You Care?”: Good Gifts
• 11. “Why Won’t God Intervene?”: Close to the Brokenhearted
• 12. “Me? A Special-Needs Parent?”: Lord, Pick Someone Else!
• 13. “But I’m Not Qualified for This!”: Unschooled and Ordinary Men
• 14. “I’m the Wrong Parent for This Child!”: Our Liabilities Leveraged
• 15. “But I Don’t Want to Be Special”: Have To vs. Get To
• 16. “Why Me? It’s Not Fair!”: An IEP for Me
• 17. “No One Understands!”: The Fellowship of Otherness
• 18. “Sit with Me, for I Am Overwhelmed”: Compassion: Suffering With
• 19. “Is This It? Or Should We Expect Something Else?”: Jesus, Plus
• 20. “Never, Lord!”: When God Won’t Behave
• 21. “What Has Happened to Me…?”: Life, Hijacked and Imprisoned
• 22. “What Do We Do Now?”: Losing Our Way along the Way
• 23. “I Can Never Die”: A Secure Surrender
• 24. “Why Was He Born This Way?”: Crisis and Culpability
• 25. “What Is the Work of God?”: Believing, Despite
• 26. “What Do You Want Me to Do for You?”: Dumb Questions
• 27. “What Good Could Come from This?”: Low Expectations
• 28. “How Can My Child Live a Worthy Life?”: Kingdom Currency
• 29. How Is This “Blessed and Highly Favored”?: Inconceivably More
• Author’s Note
• Epilogue
• Additional Resources
• Acknowledgments
• Notes
• About the Author