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Author: Amy Julia Becker

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What Our Bodies Are Like in Heaven

  • Post published:August 19, 2021
  • Post category:Disability/Down Syndrome/Faith
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  • Post author:Amy Julia Becker

What will our bodies look like in heaven? To push the point a little bit, what will the bodies of people with disabilities look like in heaven? What will our…

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Getting It Wrong

  • Post published:August 18, 2021
  • Post category:Faith
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  • Post author:Amy Julia Becker

“We grow much more spiritually by getting it wrong than by getting it right.” —Richard Rohr, Falling Upward I really don’t want this to be true. I would really like…

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Read more about the article Going in a Circle and Sometimes Making Progress

Going in a Circle and Sometimes Making Progress

  • Post published:August 17, 2021
  • Post category:Healing
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Does it ever feel like your life is going in a circle? The older I get, the more I sometimes feel as though I’m not making any progress. I repeat…

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Read more about the article An Accelerated Course in Love

An Accelerated Course in Love

  • Post published:August 16, 2021
  • Post category:Books/Disability/Down Syndrome/Family
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  • Post author:Amy Julia Becker

An accelerated course in love—“...every time I recognized the purity of my love for Penny, I was dying to an old part of myself, an old part that thought the…

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Read more about the article Happy 13th Birthday, William!

Happy 13th Birthday, William!

  • Post published:August 14, 2021
  • Post category:Family
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Last week, we celebrated William’s 13th birthday, and I loved every minute of it. I loved that our girls strong-armed their dad into a Walmart trip and came home with…

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Read more about the article A Few of My Favorite Things: Week 2

A Few of My Favorite Things: Week 2

  • Post published:August 13, 2021
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Some of my favorites...a new recipe, a book, and a podcast! Recipe Favorite new recipe: I made this one up when we were trying to use up the produce in…

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Read more about the article Is Meritocracy Part of the Problem?

Is Meritocracy Part of the Problem?

  • Post published:August 12, 2021
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In the recent clashes in churches and schools and everywhere else over critical race theory, people are debating meritocracy: Is America a nation where anyone with talent and hard work…

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Body Prayer in Action

  • Post published:August 11, 2021
  • Post category:Faith/Healing
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A friend of mine just asked this question: ​​”Also, since this has been your jam lately, can you pray for me and/or send any thoughts about how to engage some…

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Clenched Fist or Open Palm

  • Post published:August 10, 2021
  • Post category:Disability/Down Syndrome/Writing
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“It was as if I started off with my fist clenched tight around a vision of a child and, as Penny grew, I slowly opened my fingers. The bits and…

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Blurring the Lines of Disability

  • Post published:August 9, 2021
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I love that at Hope Heals Camp several weeks ago, people with disabilities served as volunteers. And lots of able-bodied people came as campers (who had family members with disabilities).…

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