Today, I’m pleased to share with you a post written by Dave Deuel of Joni & Friends International Disability Center. It is an excerpt from his new mini-book, Help! My Friend has a Disability.
There is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.
Proverbs 18:24
I can affirm this biblical truth, because I’ve lived it. When I was two, my mother went to work outside the home. For childcare, she chose a trusted friend and neighbor who had several girls my age, one of whom had a disability. My mother was ahead of her time in wanting me to get to know someone with a disability during those formative years. She also worked in the field of special education.
Jane had polio. At the start of every day her mom would help her to put on her metal braces as I watched. I went home one night and asked my mother when I could get my braces. Seizing the teaching moment, she explained to me about polio and other disabilities. I expressed that this was unfair. As parents recognize, one teaching moment often leads to another! So my mother told me about life as God’s design, our need to
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