Karol Holmes - Loving Through Impossible Choices

In this profoundly moving episode, Karol Holmes shares her family's journey of adopting three children with profound disabilities, including Moise, a deaf, blind, medically fragile boy from Haiti who would transform their lives completely. What began as a temporary hosting arrangement became a 23-year journey filled with impossible decisions, heartbreaking losses, and a deepening faith that carried them through the darkest valleys. Karol opens up about the devastating lack of services for adults with developmental disabilities, the trauma of losing her daughter in a backyard drowning, and the agonising choice to leave Moise at a hospital when his violent behaviours threatened her other medically vulnerable child.

 

Through it all, Karol discovered what she calls "a love affair with Jesus" born from lament and surrender. She challenges listeners to consider what it truly means to be pro-life beyond birth, to care for the most vulnerable among us, and to embrace an eternal perspective that transforms suffering. Her story reveals hidden truths about thousands of families suffering in isolation, the gaps in our care systems, and the radical compassion Jesus calls us to show the disabled, the marginalised, and the forgotten. This is a conversation that will challenge your assumptions, break your heart, and ultimately point you toward hope.

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