30 Days of Hope for Joy Through a Child's Severe Illness

As a couple, you anticipated the birth of your child. As a believer, you knew God had a purpose for giving you this precious baby but all your excitement and faith was overshadowed when the doctor told you something was wrong—your baby is facing a serious illness or maybe a lifelong disability.

30 Days of Hope for Joy Through a Child’s Severe Illness offers hope to parents raising a child with a lifelong struggle. Filled with encouraging stories and Scripture passages, parents will find inner strength to persevere and to begin to look for God’s divine purposes in their interactions with others. That is exactly what Ella's family had—and has—to do. Born with a painful and severe skin disease known as epidermolysis bullosa (EB), Ella’s family struggled to understand and accept the unexpected twist their family experienced. Slowly, author and grandmother Gale began to see God revealing that there is hope and joy and His divine purposes can radiate if you allow Him to shine. Let her heart-touching moments with Ella inspire you to look for God’s divine purposes in your own child’s life and in their interactions with others.