The Beatitudes for Friends of Someone with a Disability

Blessed are you who take time to
listen to difficult speech,

for you help us to know that if we
preserver, 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 who never bid us to ‘Hurry up’
and more blessed you who 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 behind us as
we enter new and untried ventures,

For our failures will be outweighed by the
times when we surprise ourselves and you.

Blessed are you who ask for our help,
for our greatest need is to be needed.

Blessed are you who help us with the
graciousness of Christ, who do not bruise
the reed or quench the flax, for often we
need the help we cannot ask for.

Blessed are you when by all these things
you ensure that the thing that makes us
individuals is not our peculiar muscles, no our
wounded nervous system, nor our difficulties
in learning, but in the God-given self which
no infirmity can confine.

Rejoice and be exceedingly glad and that
you have given us reassurance that could never
be spoken in words, for you deal with us as
God dealt with His own children.

-Author Unknown