Disability

Thursday, November 8th, 2007

Disability - The Bible and Perfection

To conclude my reflections on disability I want to focus on the issue that has been the biggest ongoing struggle for me to deal with, especially within the church. It is the concept of perfection - the idea of needing to be flawless before God. For most of my life, I thought that […]

Wednesday, November 7th, 2007

Disability - Faith and Identity

I am writing this week on my experience of disability - of missing my left arm. Growing up I heard two very contradictory messages about my arm from the church. The first was the mantra I was taught to tell people who asked about my arm - “This is the way God made […]

Tuesday, November 6th, 2007

Disability - My Experience

Recently I’ve had a few people actually ask me about my disability (a rare thing, but more on that later). So while I have mentioned it before on my blog, I thought I would finally get around to writing about it. I’ll post today about my personal experience and then have two more […]