I had one of those "moments" today...

I never really forget that Joshua has autism...it's there everyday before us. Yet, this morning he and I were reading a book that he and his class made. They do this with papers they compile. It is rather fun and cute to read what they all come up with and think.

I remember Joshua and I sitting down and filling this paper out, and it was now housed with all the others inbetween a red cover. Of course today he expounded more about his story that was not on the paper...two months later.

As I sat their reading the words of his classmates on how they would "Save Santa if he were stuck"... It hit me where he is...where his world of Autism sort of keeps him. How difficult it is for him to put down on paper, with his own hand, his incredible thoughts. How as he is speaking them and begins to write the first letter they often get lost in the "commotion" that surrounds him and his thoughts and words mingle in with the "chaos" he experiences and tries to "sift" through. How, only when he is in his moment, away from expectations and trying to make sense of this world, will he enter his and voice incredible stories....yet academically trying to bring that up is difficult. I witness daily this incredible potential that is all his own and that God has given to him personally and individually.

So, as I drive him to school, with tears I pray, asking God to break through and help unleash what He has given him.....and to give me the wisdom and understanding to "walk with him" and guide him.