Post by Ericsmomma on May 25, 2006 17:37:24 GMT -5
Not sure if this has been posted yet, but I loved it! Thought I'd share...but its kinda long.
Beatitudes
For friends of those with special needs.
1. Blessed are you who take time to listen to difficult speech,
for you can help us know that if we persevere, we can be
understood.
2. Blessed are you who walk with us in public places, and
ignore the stares of strangers, for in your companionship
we find havens of relaxation.
3. Blessed are you who never bid us to "hurry up" and more
blessed are you who do not snatch a task from our hands
to do it for us, for often we need time rather than help.
4. Blessed are you who stand beside us as we enter new
and untried ventures, for our failures will be outweighed
by the times when we surprise ourselves and you.
5. Blessed are you who ask for our help, for our greatest
need is to be needed.
6. Blessed are you who help us with the graciousness of
Christ who did not bruise the reed and quench the flax,
for often we need the help we can not ask for.
7. Blessed are you, when by all these, you assure us that
the thing that makes us individuals is not in our peculiar
muscles, nor in our wounded nervous systems, nor in our
difficulties in learning, but in the God-given self which no
infirmity can confine.
AMEN!
Beatitudes
For friends of those with special needs.
1. Blessed are you who take time to listen to difficult speech,
for you can help us know that if we persevere, we can be
understood.
2. Blessed are you who walk with us in public places, and
ignore the stares of strangers, for in your companionship
we find havens of relaxation.
3. Blessed are you who never bid us to "hurry up" and more
blessed are you who do not snatch a task from our hands
to do it for us, for often we need time rather than help.
4. Blessed are you who stand beside us as we enter new
and untried ventures, for our failures will be outweighed
by the times when we surprise ourselves and you.
5. Blessed are you who ask for our help, for our greatest
need is to be needed.
6. Blessed are you who help us with the graciousness of
Christ who did not bruise the reed and quench the flax,
for often we need the help we can not ask for.
7. Blessed are you, when by all these, you assure us that
the thing that makes us individuals is not in our peculiar
muscles, nor in our wounded nervous systems, nor in our
difficulties in learning, but in the God-given self which no
infirmity can confine.
AMEN!
