Starting to Connect
Winter 2001 — Hannah is oblivious to her present and the photo session.
We are seeing what we consider exciting progress in Hannah this week. She is definitely increasing her eye contact with those around her and seems to be more “connected” to what’s going on. The girls are wonderful about reinforcing all through the day what Hannah and I work on in our morning sessions. She is beginning to use her pointer finger to indicate what she wants. That may not seem like much, but she’s never pointed to anything before and couldn’t do it on Monday.
God is graciously letting us see some of His plan unfolding. He moved us here to Atlanta — we thought because of work possibilities. But it seems that some of His plan was to put us 10 minutes from a wonderful church, 2 doors down from a mother of an autistic daughter who had the book we needed to start us on this journey with Hannah, and right next door to a lady who has a friend getting her masters degree in speech therapy with children with special needs. That friend arrived last night from Indiana to spend a week. During that time she will also be observing Hannah and helping us determine what her needs are.
All three facets have been developing over several years, and God orchestrated it to have them intersect our lives right now. This has been an encouraging week. God has answered your prayers for grace, wisdom, patience, and encouragement many times over. He is making it clear that if we commit the way to Him and trust in Him, He will make it happen.
Thanks for your faithful prayers. They have been evident this week!
