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THURSDAY THOUGHT 7/3/08

July 3, 2008 on 3:00 pm | By John Ingrisano | In Faith & Forgiveness, Motivational Thoughts | No Comments

 I met a woman this spring at a diocesan Cursillo gathering (kind of like a religious retreat).  I spoke perhaps a dozen words to her the whole weekend, but something struck me powerfully about her.  She has a slight speech impediment; I guess you’d call it a stutter.  Either way, it was obvious.However, that was not what struck me.  What caught my attention and my admiration was that she was not the least bit shy or embarrassed by it.  A stranger to most of us, she never hesitated when it came time to stand up in front of the group and share something.  It may have taken her a bit longer than some of us to express them, but she made her points well and with confidence, and she was a joy to listen to.  She made me think twice and thrice about how many others (including myself) might be self-silenced into oblivion with such a characteristic (I will not call it an impediment, because she certainly didn’t seem to see it as one) or another, such as a bad hair day, or being too fat, too short, too inexperienced, too much of something, too little of something else. 

My point:  We are all imperfect in some way (some of us in many), but we are also unique and in fact beautifully perfect in how the Good Lord made us.  Celebrate the unique, special, wondrous self that God created.  God bless.  — jri

“Your Father knows your gifts,

your hindrances, and the condition

you’re in at every moment.”

        –    Bruce Wilkinson

               (The Prayer of Jabez)