Page 168 - Spirit - Releasing the Light Within

fit into the mould provided by our society. There were times
when the left-handed person was forced to use their right hand.

Many suffered as a consequence until it became acceptable and
left-handed devices became the fashion for them. Fortunately
these times the difference is being recognised as such and there

is certainly a change in attitude around apparent disability.
Disabled people are showing the world how capable they are,

how clever they are. They are showing that they can be very
creative in so many ways and indeed in certain tasks they can
equally perform though differently. In some tasks they can

excel and be even better than able bodied people.
However, there are still some who are still considered

hopeless cases. This is a sad situation. Nobody is a hopeless
case. There is a saying, “Where there is life there is hope”. How
long will it be before we apply that saying to these cases, and

recognise that they too are in this world on purpose, that they
have come to have a fulfilling life just like their fellow human
beings? These differently abled people have come in the hope

that we might be astute enough to recognise their uniqueness
and enable them to manifest their valuable contribution to this
world.

I personally have never ceased to be amazed at how
capable a person without sight can manage for themselves.

How wonderfully a person who has either, or neither, hearing