Poster is from Stickman Communications Image description: A4 Poster with paragliding stickman who is in a wheelchair. Text: Can’t exists…but I’m too busy with can to worry about it. I’m often told I can’t or I shouldn’t…….I can’t do a ministry job, I can’t go there, I can’t travel on that train (because the only wheelchair space is taken), I shouldn’t be doing that in […]

Originally posted on Fearfully and wonderfully made:
This blog is seeking to understand more fully why Jesus heals people in the gospel accounts. Specifically does Jesus’ healing signify some kind of physical norm that people need to be restored to as part of Jesus’ mission to ultimately restore all of creation? I will argue that this is not the case, rather that Jesus heals…

It’s Fibromyalgia awareness day, and I remembered it the day before rather than late at night on the actual day! Go me! It comes around so quickly, and because I’m painfully aware of it everyday its ‘special day’ can easily pass me by. Fibro isn’t actually my main condition, but one that complicates and makes other conditions difficult to manage. It’s also the special […]

“Can I pray for your legs?” That’s a phrase I hear a lot and wish I didn’t hear it quite so often. I always say no! That might seem a little rude, but I have my reasons (aside from being regularly and rudely accosted this way). People see my wheelchair and therefore my obvious disability.  An assumption is then made.  Well, actually two assumptions. […]

What if you knew a child who said they hated God, because He gave them a disability? How would you react? What would you think? Would you consider what could bring a child to the point of saying this? Would you consider what made them hate their disability and who they were so much, that they blamed God for it? I heard a parent […]