Have you see the greatest commercial of all? Google for "Guiness Beer Commercial Wheel chairs" and watch it--on YouTube I believe. Here are all these guys playing wheel chair basketball. Wow, that takes alot of guts to go out and try to live past your disabilities--to grow where we are challenged. Then the commercial gets you. All but one stand up and walk away out of the gym. They crossed the line of disability--no man's land if you will--and then take the guy out for a beer. Takes more gusto than a brew to enter that other world and so embrace a human being!
Over and over, we see Jesus entering the worlds of those who are cast out by others. Each time, he says that God is with you by really being there, offering who he is, and raising them to a new level of life. Do we ever see ourselves being raised up to that next level where people are truly challenged? Be it physical, emotional, spiritually--whatever--are we the ones chosen to carry out his ministry? Or do we literally carry him with us?
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