Normalize use of mobility aids

Mobility aids=FREEDOM for many people. If you don’t need one great and if you use one great! It SHOULD be up to the individual and what THEY are comfortable with!!


It’s all about INDIVIDUAL CHOICE AND FREEDOM!! Sometimes Themightymiracleman uses a walking stick. That DOESN’T mean I couldn’t walk without it but it gives me the FREEDOM to go more places safely.


We need to STOP LOOKING AT use of mobility aids as a BAD thing… THEY ARE A TOOL!! I use one when it’s helpful. I think we all have a little INTERNALIZED ABLEISM. I know that I do still although I NOW realize it. It’s not meant as a bad thing (I used to like these) but words like “diff-ability” rob us of the identity of being discriminated against (not always on purpose) and our community.


Christians, I AM one of you and you may want my voice to be different but GOD HAS A REASON why I’m like this. He may “heal” me but right now He’s using me AS I am!! I don’t care about my voice! Think of the rich man and Lazarus told by Christ “But Abraham replied, ‘Son, remember that in your lifetime you received your good things, while Lazarus received bad things, but now he is comforted here and you are in agony.”
Luke 16:25 NIV


Now, in Aramaic, the language Jesus Christ spoke this doesn’t mean bad as in a character trait but “wrong decisions” and if you think about and understand that this  passage is obviously talking about OTHER people and THEIR bad (or good) decisions it makes sense that Lazarus was a victim. I don’t want YOU to be a victim though!! I want you to be VICTORIOUS in Christ!!


All this is getting at is that Lazarus trusted the WRONG people. God will make everything “perfect” you think but who’s to say that disabled people aren’t perfect?! We don’t know what “perfect” even means. Yes Christ was perfect but we don’t actually know that HUMAN disabled people aren’t perfect in spirit already.


The whole point of this post is to say
STOP JUDGING PEOPLE!!
Maybe they use a walker or wheelchair. YOU don’t know what God thinks as “For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,” declares the Lord.”
Isaiah 55:8 NIV
STOP TRYING TO FIX US!!!
Last word about mobility aids: Do what makes YOU comfortable!