Well, this may be an "I need to vent" post...so here we go! In the past few weeks I have come across the comment twice as to being or feeling blessed. First let me run past you the opposite of blessed...cursed. So the first situation someone recently forwarded and article to me about an amazing young man with special needs and his dad...although the article was very interesting and I appreciated her thinking of me and my family...she had the nerve to mention to me how the article made her feel "blessed". Then while my mom was talking to a couple of people the other day a young lady with disabilities passed by them in her wheelchair and one of the ladies looked at her and said "now that's when you count your blessings and know you are blessed". Now being a mother of a child with special needs what you are telling me and everyone out there with an illness or a disability is that they are not blessed. Maybe this sounds like I am overreacting or something but if you really think about what the word "blessed" means I think I am not overreacting. Yes, I want Gracie to be healthy and walk and run and eat and talk, etc...but is she not blessed by God because she can't or are we her family and friends not blessed because she cannot do these things? Gracie and her friends and family and everyone else like her are blessed as well. Having a disability or a disabled child is just a difficult hurdle just like other things in life such as financial struggles or a loved on dying, etc. Your life can change in the blink of an eye and just because challenges confront you in whatever way they may present themselves doesn't determine whether you are blessed or cursed.
We are human and say things and don't "think" about the words we choose when we are speaking...I can only imagine the things I have probably said in the past that has hurt someone and I didn't realize it. Like I said this was a vent post and just something that has been eating at my heart and just needed to write about it.
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Wednesday, May 7, 2008
