| Blessed are you who take time to listen to defective speech, for
you help us to know that if we persevere, we can be understood. |
| 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. |
| Blessed are you that never bids us "hurry up" and more
blessed are you that do not snatch our task from our hands to do them for us,
for often we need time rather than help. |
| Blessed are you who stand beside us as we enter new ventures, for our failures will
be outweighed by times we surprise ourselves and you. |
| Blessed are you who ask for our help, for our greatest need is to
be needed. |
| Blessed are you when by all these things you assure us that the thing that
makes us individuals, is not our peculiar muscles, nor our wounded nerves system , but
is the God-given self that no infirmity can confine. |
| Blessed are those who realize that I am human and don't expect
me to be saintly just because I am disabled. |
| Blessed are those who pick things up with out being asked. |
| Blessed are those who understand that sometimes I am weak and not
just lazy. |
| Blessed are those who forget my disability of the body and see the shape of my
soul. |
| Blessed are those who see me as a whole person and not as a
"half" and one of God's mistakes. |
| Blessed are those who love me just as I am without wondering what I might have been
like. |
