“His Name Is John The Beloved”

Barbara Carson Todd
Life By Joe
Published in
6 min readNov 7, 2022

Photo by Author, With Joe’s Permission

COMMUNICATE WHAT REALLY MATTERS

My younger son, Joe, can’t speak or use his hands to type or hold a pencil. But he’s an intelligent young man, full of questions. He communicates a lot by eye gaze and body position. We ask Joe all kinds of questions, to find out what he’s interested in:

“Joe, do you know Jesus loves you?”

Barbara Carson Todd
Life By Joe

Writer, editor, advocate, occasional organist/cantor. You can find me at barbaracarsontodd.com or on https://nyaddcares.org.