Abstract
Lovering contracted polio in 1946 at the age of 18 and has been confined to a wheelchair ever since. He graduated from Northwestern College and was ordained in 1957. Because of his disability he was drawn into counseling the severely disabled and those who have been diagnosed as having some potentially crippling disease such as multiple sclerosis. This counseling not only involves the disabled person but also the parents, spouse, children, friends, and relatives both at the time of the crisis and later, dealing with the ongoing problems that result from severe disability. His insights come not only from such counseling but especially from the problems he himself has faced as he has sought to live a reasonably normal life with a family and children while a paraplegic in a wheelchair.