Lisa Simmons

And everything in me wanted to say yes, because I wanted to, and I did believe that God was going to protect him, and because he couldn't understand, probably, you know, I wanted to say yes.

But I didn't.

I said, Daniel, would you like to ask Jesus into your heart?

And he said, yes.

And he wanted me to stop right then.

And I said, well, we need to get to a parking place.

So we pulled into his little school.

And in the parking lot, he got down on his knees in the backseat of that Suburban car.

And asked Jesus into his heart.

And I believe that that was real.

And I know that God saw that little, you know, child who we thought maybe couldn't understand big concepts.

But when Jesus says, let the children come to me, he meant every child, no matter what the... Yep.

disability.

Well, we didn't really have a choice because we had no internet.

This is, again, late 80s through the 90s.

And so there was no way other than just word of mouth of how to find therapists.

Were there even therapists?

I didn't know any of that.

Not that we knew about.

And so just whatever you heard from somebody, you're like, okay, we'll try that.