The Life We Never Expected: Hopeful Reflections on the Challenges of Parenting Children with Special Needs - Paperback

by Andrew Wilson (Author), Rachel Wilson (Author), Russell Moore (Foreword by)

Sometimes life throws you a curveball.

Andrew and Rachel Wilson know what it means to live a life they never expected. As the parents of two children with special needs, their story mingles deep pain with deep joy in unexpected places. With raw honesty, they share about the challenges they face on a daily basis--all the while teaching what it means to weep, worship, wait, and hope in the Lord. Offering encouragement rooted in God's Word, this book will help you cling to Jesus and fight for joy when faced with a life you never expected.

• Includes a foreword by Russell Moore, president of the Southern Baptist Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission
• Written in a refreshingly honest tone and divided into easy, readable chapters
• Offers hope to anyone going through suffering of any kind
• Written by parents in the midst of raising children with special needs

Author Biography

Andrew Wilson (PhD, King's College London) is the teaching pastor at King's Church London and a columnist for Christianity Today. He is the author of several books, including Remaking the World and God of All Things. Andrew is married to Rachel, and they have three children: Zeke, Anna, and Sam.

Rachel Wilson is a wife, mother of two, and the coauthor of The Life We Never Expected. She and her husband are part of Kings Church in Eastbourne in the United Kingdom.