Disability
Advice from a parent, resources, and some discussion of issues that pertain to disability.
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I was absolutely shocked by the research I came across. Strong-willed people were not immune to brainwashing, daydreamers were. Often, those resistant to brainwashing were people no one would expect, average looking people with little to brag about. Why is this?
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Even though it is not a Christian story in the sense of talking about Christ or theology, it is still a story about redemption. I would argue that mercy, undeserved love, and redemption is the true meaning of Christmas… not the presents and decorating.
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When I was starting out homeschooling, I read a book by Maria Montessori called “The Absorbant Mind.” It was tranformative to me as a parent and teacher. I highly recommend it to everyone who works with children.
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Separated from the world of darkness by a bottomless chasm lie the stones of light. The King has built a bridge from that world to His kingdom across the chasm to give people access once again to the stones. He has established seven cities of light and seven towers as beacons to The Darkened Land.
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I want to feel like I can handle life and all that is in it. I want to imagine myself flying, running, and walking through every battle and trial… except sometimes it is just too hard for me. I get weary, tired, faint.
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“What’s wrong with my Zephyr, doctor?” asked the Dryad woman with anxiety. She pulled a handkerchief from her corseted gown and began to sob.
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I want to discuss where disability belongs in our churches, which is front a center of our theology and our ministry, not to receive sympathy, but as examples of Christ.
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SO, if Isaac, Jacob, Moses, and Paul were disabled, and God refused to heal them, why does God heal anyone? Why not leave things as they are? This is an unusual question and backward from the usual question.
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We, the church, are uncomfortable with disability and don’t really have an explanation for why God allows it to exist. My proposal was that God allows… even gives disability on purpose. So where in the Bible, other than Paul, I could possibly get such an idea?
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As long there are people with disabilities, the issue of where they fit in the church will continue to exist. We need to fix it and stop ignoring it.
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Some days I feel like Jacob. This month has been tough because my youngest son was diagnosed with profound hearing loss in both ears. For the hundredth (perhaps more) time, I wrestled with God again.
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You see, I didn’t understand divine love like my son had for Sploosh. Of course, Sploosh would never have had a personality or life beyond the shore if it wasn’t for my son… the one with autism… the one who people assume can’t love because the media has told them that people with autism don’t…
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Sir Gibbie was written in 1879 by a Scottish minister named George MacDonald. George MacDonald was the favorite author of C.S. Lewis and has been well-known for both his theological writing as well as his fiction.
