The large fortune we are spending on Logan's therapy is a great mercy from God, training us to spend our time and money on things we should have spent it on anyway (lots of joint attention, home projects, crafts, and activities that foster togetherness, keener awareness of our example and the impetus to correct our own behavior toward each other and the kids), rather than on vanities, entertainment, and building bigger barns. In other words, we are paying a vast sum for something incalculably greater, which we could have gotten for free.

Life is so short; it's a huge blessing to be reminded with this daily cross of autism that only what we invest in the shape of our character, the seasoning of our speech, and the souls of our kids will endure; everything else will wither away with age.