I can understand why lots of people assume that I wrote A Good and Perfect Gift with an audience of parents of children with Down syndrome in mind. It certainly speaks directly to our shared situation, and many parents have written me to say that they went through a similar pattern of shock and fear that turned in to gradual acceptance and eventually full embrace not only of their child, but of their child with Down syndrome.

But I didn't write this book for them. They already know much, if not all, of what I have to say–that every human life is valuable, that chromosomal abnormalities don't make babies any less perfect, and that having a child with a disability bumps against the edges of what it means to be human, teaches us about brokenness and beauty, takes us into thin places.

And so I am always encouraged when I receive an email or comment or review in which someone recognizes the broader hopes and purpose I had in telling our story. This week, A Good and Perfect Gift was reviewed at sixseeds.org. Anna Quinn writes:

A Good and Perfect Gift is not for other families with disabled children or friends of families with a person who has Down syndrome; this book is for everyone. It teaches all of us to look deep inside and see our fatal faults and our marvelous possibilities—and to see them in the people around us. This book is about grace: receiving grace in the face of great struggle and disappointment, giving grace when our friends and family cannot meet our needs, and finding grace to move forward in our lives. Beautifully written, A Good and Perfect Gift is the gift of an honest story that points us to the good and perfect God.

Click here to read the full review, and comment over there if you want to be entered in a giveaway.