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Healing does not manifest itself in physical transformation alone. How can we talk, pray, and hope for healing in a more expansive and less traditional way that honors the disabled person? Let us widen our perspective to see healing through God’s eyes.
Read MoreFor many of us, there is an unspoken discomfort that arises in us when we enter a room and there facing us is a person with a visible disability. It might be a child in a wheelchair or an adult with Tourette’s syndrome, but regardless of the disability, the feeling is the same. We feel a sudden need to avoid the individual completely to ease our discomfort, or we fearfully fumble over what we should do or what we should say.
Read MoreIn the days of the early Church there was a certain population that was being neglected: the Greek widows weren’t receiving their distribution of food. We don’t know exactly how or why this was happening, but we do know that this is nothing new: humanity has a tendency to neglect/oppress certain populations. And as much as we wish this wasn’t the case, that even happens in the Church.
Read MoreI stood with a milk bottle in my hand, trying to muster up the visual acuity to make out the numbers on the label. But no matter how long I stared and squinted, I couldn’t see the expiration date. Thank God for Facetime and loving husbands and friends. Reading expiration dates on labels is one of the many things that vision impairment makes more difficult. Now I have to use my other senses instead of relying on a simple label to determine whether my next sip will lead to projectile…anything.
Read MoreWhen Amberle Brown was a child, she wanted to be a martyr for Jesus, or at the least, a missionary to an unreached people group. She never imagined she would one day become part of one.
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