Touched By a Poem


© Sandra Nasser

One night during some research for an upcoming article I found this great site. It is called, "Connie V's Corner" http://www,geocites.com/heartland/Pains/... Connie has some terrific stuff on her site about cerebral palsy. Especially, the poetry corner. I came across this poem on the site that touched my heart so dearly. And I wanted to do something different by sharing and dedicating this poem to all the readers at the Suite. It is titled "Disability Beatitudes". Enjoy and God bless!

Blessed are you who take time to listen to defective speech, or you help us to know that if we persevere, we can ve understood.

Blessed are you who walk with us in public places and ignore the stares of strangers, for in you companionship we find havens of relaxation.

Blessed are you that never bids u "hurry up" and more bless are you that do not snatch our tasks 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 nervous system, but is the God-given self that no infirmity can confine..

Blessed are those who pick thing up without 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, unique and complete, 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.

Blessed are my friends on whom I depend, for they are the substance and joy of my life!!!

Author unknown

Thank you Connie.

P.S. Keep your eye out for a special poetry event coming in the Fall 2000.

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