Local family has a severely autistic child who is now in intensive care on life support. Apparently he gets pretty violent and has knocked his father out cold at least once..beats on his mom, etc. The mom is always so upbeat and pleasant...and lives her life for this child.
As autistics can do, he bangs his head a lot. Apparently, in one of his episodes, he banged once too often. He is on life support and currently (yesterday) there was no brain activity.
Prayers for these devoted parents who have loved the child God gave them so unselfishly, to now face the inevitable decision of turning off life support.
Lord, in your mercy