beatiudes for people with disabilites

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This was posted on my McArdle's group this morning and I thought it was so great

I had to share it with the mitoldes.

Smiles,

Beatitudes for People with Disabilities

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> by Majorie Chappell

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> Blessed are those who take time to listen to the defective speech,

> for you help us to know that if we persevere we can be understood.

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> Blessed are those who walk with us in public places and ignore the

> stares of strangers for in your companionship we find havens of

> relaxation.

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> Blessed are those who never bid us " hurry up " and more blessed are

> you that do not snatch out tasks from our hands to do them for us,

> for often we need time rather than help.

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> Blessed are those who stand beside us as we enter new ventures, for

> our failures will be outweighed by the times we surprise ourselves and

> you.

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> Blessed are those that ask for our help, for our greatest need is to

> be needed.

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> Blessed are those when by all these things you assure us that the

> thing that makes us individuals is not our peculiar muscles, nor our

> wounded nervous systems, but it is the God-given self that no

> infirmity can confine.

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> Blessed are those who realise that we are human and don't expect us

> to be saintly just because we have a disability.

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> Blessed are those that pick things up without being asked.

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> Blessed are those who understand that sometimes I am weak and not

> just lazy.

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> Blessed are those who forget the disability of my body and see the

> shape of my soul.

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> Blessed are those who see me as a whole person, unique and

> complete and not as one of God's mistakes.

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> Blessed are those who love me just as I am without wondering what I

> would've been like.

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> Blessed are my friends upon whom I depend, for they are the

> substance and joy of my life!!!

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