Jul. 8, 2008 - My 9 year old is awesome!
Tonight, Austin came to me and shared that he has a song in his head that he keeps making up.
Of course I'm sure he is about to sing a song about how he will pull his sisters' hair and other brotherly meanness or about crawdads and tadpoles. I was wrong, so wrong in fact that I had had to apologize to God.
I asked him to share the song with me and he told me a few of the lines.
"He died on the cross for me
He cared just for me"
"He cares about you and he cares about me"
He made up a song about God.
I was dumbfounded! I know he is musically inclined and that he has been saved but I didn't know he was capable of such things. Austin has lots of "issues", as we'll call them for now. This is incredible for him to create a song in order to worship God. He said he has been listening to the music at church and it is like the song "Oh Happy Day" by I don't know who. When I find out I'll update. I really didn't think he was connecting with the music at all. He never participates or even stands when asked to. He doesn't even really focus on the front of the stage.
I am so proud of him. I can't even begin to tell you how this means to me that he is able to do this. I know this may sound a little over the top but Austin is not my "neurotypical" child. Never has been. He is our sensitive, quiet, creative child who struggles with so much of life that most of us take for granted. I will write more as we learn more details but for today I wanted to say that I am so proud of him. I know God is smiling down on Austin right now too.
