"The people walking in darkness have seen a great light..." Isaiah 9:2

We are all familiar with the feeling of stumbling around in the darkness, groping for the light switch, then finally on comes the light and everything becomes clear.  Well for my family and me, the darkness was dyslexia and the light came in the form of an organization called Neuhaus Education Center.  For my husband the darkness started creeping in when he began public school.  Being severely dyslexic he began having many difficulties with reading, writing and pretty much anything associated with language.  Like most dyslexics he was also very intelligent, so he figured out very quickly how to hide the fact that he was struggling.  So began his life long quest to bring as little attention as possible to himself.  He made it to ninth grade before a language teacher finally discovered that he could barely read.  She had him put in special education classes(this was before the days of inclusion).  He wasn't in there long before that teacher realized that he was much too intelligent for her class, so back to the regular class he went with out anyone trying to figure out what his problem really was.  So he graduated from High School at the bottom of his class, with a keen awareness that there was something very different about him, but in total darkness as to what it was.  It wasn't until he was in his fifties and I was experiencing  much difficulty trying to homeschool one of our children(that is a whole different story, for a later post) that we stumbled upon in-depth information about dyslexia.  The darkness finally came into the light and he realized that there was actually a name for what was different about him.  Most importantly he realized that it wasn't just him, but a significant number of people share his learning difference.