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Unfiltered Christian Podcast
Ep 20 - Your Disability: A Gift or a Challenge?
In this enlightening episode, we tackle the intricate dynamics of disabilities and their profound impact on our lives. Sharing personal stories of resilience and struggle, we delve into how disabilities can often reveal hidden blessings and lessons that shape our perspectives and interactions. Both hosts bravely confront their own experiences with disabilities, offering listeners a candid look at the discrimination faced and the emotional turmoil that often accompanies such battles.
Through heartfelt discussions about faith and empowerment, we explore biblical teachings that affirm the value of all individuals, regardless of their physical abilities. Our conversations challenge the conventional narratives surrounding disabilities, highlighting the need for compassion, empathy, and understanding from the community. With spirit and honesty, we share how our journeys are not just about overcoming obstacles but embodying a unique grace that only our experiences can offer.
As we reflect on the importance of education and patience in bridging gaps between different experiences, we encourage our audience to embrace each other in love and understanding. By doing so, we can create a world that recognizes the inherent worth in every individual, paving the way for a more inclusive society. Join us for this empowering discussion that will inspire you to think differently and foster a kinder connection with those around you. Don’t forget to subscribe, share, and leave a thoughtful review!
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Hey Saints, welcome back to the Unfiltered Christian Podcast.
Speaker 1:I'm Cece and I'm Shae and today is our 20th episode and I thought we'll shout out some listeners that we haven't actually said hey to. So we have Sutherland in the UK, then Newcastle upon Tyne, then we've got Sutherland in Washington DC. Um, in the UK we have Reading, bromley, wembley Tower, hamlet, southwark, fulham, walthamstorres, croydon. Then back to America, we've got Virginia in Harrisonburg and then we've got Cleveland and Redcar in Gisborough. So shout out to you guys and thank you for listening and supporting wow, that's a lot of people.
Speaker 2:Thank you for listening, guys.
Speaker 1:That's amazing yeah, I see our Americans are going up as well I've noticed that actually they're leveling up with the, with the british okay, we welcome you all. So today is my question, and my question to you, sh Shay, is a personal one. Ooh, when Yahweh gave you your disability, did you see it as a blessing or a hindrance? Hey, this is definitely a personal one.
Speaker 2:And please describe your disability before you answer your questions. For those who didn't, I was going to. Yeah, I was thinking of doing that. So you have to break it down, I guess. So I was born of a condition called albinism, which means I was born with little to no skin pigmentation. So my hair is blonde, my eyelashes are blonde, my eyebrows are blonde, my skin is very pale. The only way you can tell that I have ever so slightly a touch of pigmentation is because my hair is more of like a golden blonde than a like a really white colour. I think that's the best way to describe it.
Speaker 2:Lived with it all my life. You're born with it, it's genetic. So both of your parents has to carry the albinism genes to be able to have a child of albinism. Um, growing up, a lot of people think it only comes from one parent, but it's not correct. And you also don't you? You actually don't know if you carry that gene. Um, it's like if you have, I don't know, in your family, I don't know, you might have blue eyes or you might have, you know, like all these different type of genes that you just don't necessarily know. But in this case, you both have to be. The only way you would know you have it is if you produce a child with albinism, because you both have to carry the genes.
Speaker 2:So with that it comes with very sensitive skin, very sensitive to sun, but the main thing is probably the visual impairment or partially sighted. That's the main main thing, and so my vision is quite bad. I feel like it's amazing. I would say it's amazing, and the reason why I say that is because I'm going forward to back here. So I've now come to the conclusion of the fact that God has blessed me to be able to see, to be able to like live my life, because when I went to the optometrist last year and when she showed me a picture of my eye which I've never seen before so the back of your eye, all of her eyes should have a dark yellow color and mine is only in spots, like you only see a little dark yellow hair, a little dark yellow there. So the strongest, my strongest eye is my right, so you see a bit more dark yellow and reds. I think there's supposed to be like some reds in my right eye, but in my left eye you can literally hardly see any of that, and even still in my right eye you can't see a lot of it and the fact that I'm able to live on my own and take care of myself and take care of my son. I didn't realize how much of a blessing that was until a few months ago Now. Whether I saw it as a blessing, no, never did, because I faced, and still do sometimes.
Speaker 2:But when I was younger it was worse. I faced so much discrimination, so much scrutiny, so much attack, physically and verbally, from people I wouldn't say around the world, because I faced it in different countries. So I live in the UK, so I faced it here. I was born in Guyana, which is in South America. Also faced it in different countries, so I live in the UK, so I faced it here. I was born in Guyana, which is in South America, also faced it there, but it wasn't as bad because I was born there. It wasn't as bad at that time because some people knew me, some people knew my parents, so it wasn't as bad, I think, anyways, from my memory. But I did have children in school that didn't want to play with me because they felt scornful of me. They felt like I looked very, very just yeah, just completely different and they felt scared to play with me.
Speaker 2:And then, when I came to England when I was nine, I thought, oh gosh, this is a fresh start, amazing. You know, I'm going to be loved, it's going to be amazing. And my bullying was way worse, to the point where my dad had to take me out of my first primary school and change me to another one. And I think that happened even within the first year of me being here. Actually, because, when I think about it, sorry, I came here in early year four, which would probably be grade four in America, um, if I'm correct. Um, but I was, yeah, I was in the early stages of nine, I guess, so the early first part of the year of nine. So so when I, I definitely got moved within that year, because by the end of year four I was already in another school. So it was that bad. But that's where I got the physical bullying and the attacks. Through the bullying and discrimination it brought me a lot of trauma, a lot of trauma that stayed with me into my adulthood. So it's taken me a very long time to see it as a blessing and, to be honest, I'm not going to say I still fully see it as a blessing.
Speaker 2:I'm going to be very honest and candid with you guys, because it can be really, really tough, because there's times where I'm going through life and I feel fine, and then someone will come and remind me that I look different in some way. Like I might get a funny stare or a pointing or a laughing, or I've had an experience where people have done videos of me and been laughing or taking pictures of me and that kind of stuff. So like you just get reminded of it, and so there's times where I've struggled to look in the mirror. There's times where I did not want to look like me. So I did a lot of like wigs and wig caps and all these different things, like to change my hair so that I wouldn't be quote unquote as noticeable. I wore a lot of fake eyelashes and did my eyebrows. Like I tried to alter myself, my look as much as I could. But this is how I know Yahweh was in me.
Speaker 2:I didn't go to the dramatic extent that I could have, like dyeing my hair, like I tried that one time when I was 18, like my hair got ruined. I was upset. So like I didn't do it again, but like the dramatic extent. I could have gone to um, maybe doing plastic surgery, maybe, like, do you know what I mean? Like I could have gone out my way, which. There was one point I wanted to do plastic surgery for a part of my body. I was like planning on doing it and then I, by the time I got the, started working to make the type of money that I would be able to do it. I feel like Yahweh removed that from me because I was adamant that I was going to do that plastic surgery. So I haven't.
Speaker 2:I'm still working on seeing it as a blessing, I guess because I'm open enough to talk about it. I did used to have a YouTube page and I did used to try my best to show people that, even though I am visually impaired and I look different, that my life is, I still have a life, I can still do things, and the thing that Yahweh tries to show me is that, at the end of the day, at least I still have my hands and feet and I can walk and I can talk and my organs are functioning. Know, I don't have, I don't have a serious illness. So why not be grateful, um, and so that's something I'm still working on, I would say, but I see the blessings here and there, if that, if that makes sense, like I'm building up to have full hmm, how to describe it like a full, like to fully see it as a blessing. So at the moment, like I don't fully, it's, like I see it here and there, but I don't think I'm there yet, in honesty. But yeah, I could talk for a minute, so I don't know if you've got another question before I continue talking Because, as you can tell guys, it's quite a passionate subject of mine.
Speaker 2:Like I'm very open to talking about it, because I just feel like education is key and I feel, like a lot of people who have attacked me, it's lack of education, but in that moment you don't see it that way, because your feelings has been hurt, um, and it stays with you to know that people are physically doing this type of things to you in public, where other people are seeing as well um, it shows us that yahweh is sovereign even over disabilities, because I came across a bible text in exodus 4, verses 11 um, and this is like the lord talking to Moses and he says so.
Speaker 1:The lord said to him who has made man's mouth, or who has make, or who makes the mute, the deaf, the seeing or the blind have not I, the Lord, and so it's kind of like the Lord gives us these things without us realizing, um, as you pointed out, that many people are not aware that they have a disability until externals come in, and external meaning it could be somebody that's not in your everyday household. You didn't realise that you have a disability, but here in exodus, the lord is saying that he gave it to us. Um, some people are born with a disability and some people are born without a disability and then get a disability. Um, but I think the powerful thing about it is that we're all made in his image. The reason why I wanted to talk about this topic is because many of us um have a disability, and I was watching a lady in america who was blessed with twins, amen, and she had a c-section and the c-section got infected and she caught sepsis and I even had to google what sepsis is, because I it's.
Speaker 1:It's a really serious infection wow due to the fact that I think within a day, like her fingers, and started going black, her leg started going black, so now she's lost one of her legs and both of her arms, like from her elbow go down to her hands, gosh and um, and hearing her say, and her husband say that you know, they're happy that she's alive and she's happy that she's alive and she wanted to be a mom. And yes, she doesn't have hands anymore and she has to wear like um I forgot what they call them the prost, is it prosthetic legs?
Speaker 1:yeah, yeah she's able to see her children grow up where she could have died. And it just troubles you, um, like I was born um deaf in one ear. My mum took notice of that from when I was a child. I didn't realize that I was deaf in one ear until I got to secondary school. Um, wow, yeah, my mum told me. So I was aware of it, but I wasn't aware of it.
Speaker 2:Doesn't make sense yeah, because it wasn't, it wasn't highlighted, it wasn't like you know, I could still hear, because it wasn't highlighted.
Speaker 1:It wasn't like you know I could still hear, yeah, and my family was aware of it. But when I got to school um secondary school, there was a pastor there and he he always used to be like, can you hear me, can you hear me? And it was annoying wow and that was an adult.
Speaker 1:Wow, you're good, can you hear me? Can you hear me? And I was thinking, oh gosh, okay, gosh, okay, wow, yeah. So that was the first time I was just like, oh yeah, like I actually cannot hear out of one ear, but it didn't bother me. I wasn't ashamed to say like if I was around new people I'd be like. By the way, I'm deaf in one ear, but I think for me I'm the opposite. A lot of people think that I'm lying because they're like but you can hear so well. Um, so it's just like yeah, but if you, if you stand on my left side, I won't be able to, um, hear you.
Speaker 1:But I would say that with lockdown it made my hearing worse. Um, because in lockdown I had a car accident, so I didn't have a car anymore, and um, and then we was at home, so my uh had to. When we started to go outside, everything seemed louder. I had to. I'm still trying to um navigate now that I've got a car back. Praises, be like, when people are now on my left side. If music is playing, I now have to adapt, because all these years I've been driving on my left side. If music is playing. I now have to adapt, because all these years I've been driving my, my body got used to it. And then now not having a car, just for how long was it?
Speaker 1:like eight, nine months, not even a year, but like nine months months and my body's now having to try and adjust to hearing um but it's funny because I don't see myself as having a disability, even though, quote unquote, I am in society. But I just see it as I have one less thing, but I'm still me yeah, completely get that.
Speaker 2:Um, that does happen, though, when you are maybe lacking one area in your body. Um, it makes completely complete sense what you're saying in regards to having to like readjust and stuff like that, because I have to readjust with my eyes loads of times um, and I've been having a lot of um is it called abrasions? But like a lot of eye injuries basically, um, I had one last year when I went on holiday, which was horrible, guys. It was horrible. Imagine being on holiday and you can't see I mean literally can't see. I couldn't see for like a few days because my eye was it scratched. I don't know how it got scratched. I just woke up one morning and it was scratched. I literally couldn't see out of my eye and I had no clue of what was the best solution Eventually ended up in A&E and spent a whole day in A&E, basically, and then it took another day to heal.
Speaker 2:But yeah, it does happen when you're lacking in that area, like when people think that you're lying in regards to your hearing, it's because your right ear has learnt to carry that, that, that kind of I don't even know what's the correct word here but it's learned to carry the, the, the do the work, basically for both ears in a sense, um. So it makes sense why, um, people would think that it's the same with, with my vision, like I think a lot of people did not realize, which I'm quite shocked about because I'm thinking I put. I have to put things close to my face a lot of the time, but through bullying and stuff I've always tried to not make it obvious. I think that's just what it is, but I've always pushed my eye to do more. But I don't think it's necessarily just my eye. My hearing is very enhanced because of lack of vision.
Speaker 2:So, like, for example, I think that's the reason why I didn't think I could live on my own, because I got used to the environment. I was in with my parents and like, got used to the route, like, like when I say, like bus routes and stuff like that. So I always felt like I would struggle to readjust to like different environments if I have to move or move around, um, I always thought that would be a problem for me because, like, when I lived with my parents and I used to wait for the bus to work, I knew the sound of each engine of the bus. So there was an option of two buses and I knew what the engine of one bus sounded like and what the other one sounded like. So even though I'm looking, I can't see the number of the bus. So for me to know what bus to stop, I used to listen to the sound of the engine.
Speaker 1:Look how powerful Yahweh is Because I think everybody has had a time in their life where they've hurt their foot or they've done something, where you're less able for a couple of days and you realize how you can balance, like the way how he just reshuffles us, like I'm not saying that it's easy, but you know I remember when I hurt my right hand.
Speaker 1:Like I'm not saying that it's easy, but you know I remember when I hurt my right hand, like I had to force my left hand, like my left hand just started to just things I could do, and it's amazing that how our father is.
Speaker 2:And he created us yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:And then I was even looking through, like when I was gonna ask you this question about um people in the bible, that um that had a disability I've researched this. Yeah, it's amazing, yeah and then I was thinking to myself I'm just gonna go through some just for people that don't know, um. So there there was a man called um mefeeba, chef, I believe yeah, I was gonna say him mefeeba chef yeah, um, he was crippled in both of his feet after being as a child yes but despite his disability king david showed him kindness because, it's his covenant with um jonathan.
Speaker 1:That's in second samuel's four, verses four, and second samuel, chapter nine. And then we have the moses moses, of course speech impediment. He struggled to speak, but look, look how many people he led. You could find that in Exodus 4, verses 10 and 12, and then you had the man that was born blind in John chapter 9, verses 1 to 7, and Jesus healed him.
Speaker 1:There was Paul. Paul had a thorn in his flesh, which many believe was a physical alignment, and that's in second Corinthians 12, verses 7 to 9. And then he had Jacob. So after after Jacob was wrestling with the angel, he was left with a limp for the rest of his life.
Speaker 2:Yes, of course, because the angel did, he break his hip.
Speaker 1:I can't remember. He did something to his hip.
Speaker 2:Yeah, he did something to his hip. I think he actually did break it, but, guys, don't, I can't remember.
Speaker 1:He definitely did something to his hip. He did something to his hip he did something to his hip.
Speaker 1:I think he actually did break it, but but guys don't remember. He definitely did something. 24 to 31, okay, um, and his physical weakness was a reminder of his spiritual encounter with god. And it's just like sometimes. Sometimes we don't understand, we don't know why, we see sometimes things as a hindrance. But it's just to look above it sometimes, and I know it's especially more harder for people who wasn't born that way, and then especially throughout their adult life, if they then have a disability, because that's a massive readjustment and I would just say like to pray and you will have people that are mean and cruel.
Speaker 1:But the narrow path is not easy. We deal with cruel people every day. We're even teaching our children about them. You know, sometimes we too can be cruel and mean without us even realizing. Um and um, what was I gonna say? There was something that came up in to me, um like even today. It's like I, I wear air earbuds and I have to wear both of them, because if I don't wear, if I wear my left one which I can't hair out of, if I don't wear it.
Speaker 1:Sorry, people think that I could hear them, but I can't so I have to wear both of them, even though I can't hair out of my right ear. Well, I can't really say I can't hear. I can pick up vibrations so I could pick up, but sometimes I could hear sounds that people can't hear because the vibration is very, very strong.
Speaker 1:So when the microphone goes, like that is so dangerous to me, like it's yeah, I'm like oh wow mom, I pick up on vibrations and um, today I couldn't find my headphone and I was just like, how am I gonna hear? Because I can't hear out of the, the left, the left ear, but I can't find my right headphone. But it was something that you said that the holy spirit just reminded me of is because I can't hear in one of my ears. My sense of smell is so strong.
Speaker 1:The same way, your hearing is more stronger to balance out your vision yeah and it's amazing how he just helps us, like even people who are blind, like how they hear stuff and they could say like, oh, this and this is coming, and you think raw, like, oh, okay, and it's just amazing that, yes, we lack one thing, but he blesses us so much more in other stuff about us realizing it's true, amen.
Speaker 2:Funny enough, I saw a blind man on the bus yesterday and someone was about to sit down and they didn't sit down because they saw him rocking. And I thought, well, that's not a reason why to not sit down. I'm going to sit down, you know, because I can see that person bypass them. Now, god, forgive me, because that might not necessarily be the reason. Give me, because that might not necessarily be the reason, but I just feel like you can. Just, I know what that's like, basically to be on the bus and I've seen people avoid sitting next to me because they don't want to be near me. Yeah, so I, I just maybe that was just my thing.
Speaker 2:That popped up in my head, but I just felt like that's why he was. Like people avoided sitting next to him. But so I didn't know he was blind. I just saw him rocking. So I saw his face down and I saw him rocking and I thought, well, he's not doing anything. So do you know? I mean, there's no harm in sitting next to him at all. And then, as he he heard the, he stopped and he pressed the button. So he knew what button to press. Um, and I thought, oh, I don't know. Like I was just amazed you know you're observing somebody because I thought, oh, what, what does he have like, what's going on? And then I then I saw him take out his stick. I was like, oh my god, she's blind. Like I did not see that at all and just watching him maneuver, like I couldn't stop looking at him.
Speaker 2:But it wasn't in a negative, I just was so amazed to watch him maneuver, getting off the bus yeah and like how to step down, because the bus was still quite high and I wanted to go and help him but then I didn't want to. I know that people like to keep their independence, yeah, and he probably already knew what to do, but it just amazed me because I just thought, for me, I'm I'm visually impaired, right, so I still rely on my eyes um a lot, and there's times where I could make that step and I could fall because I didn't see properly. Um, so when I saw the way he got off the bus, I was amazed. I couldn't stop looking at him.
Speaker 2:I was just like this is just blowing my mind and I just thought his hearing is so enhanced and I feel that if I was blind I wouldn't be as brave to want to go outside. I don't think I would because, knowing that I cannot see at all and the world that we live in, people are so cruel. Like people could, you could have the one out of a thousand that would take advantage of that person and I just think in my head I just this is that's what I mean by walking by faith, like there. That's walking by faith for me, because I don't, I just don't know if I could, and especially in the night time, like he's maneuvering with his stick to walk himself home. Yeah, and I was just amazed by that.
Speaker 1:I really was but lucky for him, he doesn't well in his time. He knows it's night or day, but it's, he's in darkness yeah, I mean yeah he, yeah, yeah he.
Speaker 2:But I'm sure he's aware you know like there's so many he. It's just I don't know. It just blew my mind seeing that the world isn't built for blind people.
Speaker 1:I realized that the other day when I was in the lift. I was thinking, if the lift stops and they say um, can you read me where your location?
Speaker 2:they cannot, and there's no braille for that that's true, there's a braille for the numbers, but there's no braille for the floor. Is it to know where you stopped?
Speaker 1:that's true, not the floor, like sometimes when you press the button, they would ask for the location where you are so they know what where to send the people to get to get you. Like they would say, like there's a special code on the lift oh, I see what you mean now there's no braille for it. So if they're gonna say, can you please read me the number?
Speaker 2:The number. Yeah, that's true. That's actually true. That's a good point. Wow, yeah, it isn't made for. I mean, even I made a complaint at work this week. They've brought in a new system, a new app system for everything that we have to do at work. So they're removing the files and stuff and they're bringing in this new system.
Speaker 2:And I complained because I was like this app is not visually impaired friendly. So you have parts that are big and then there's parts where you want me to focus on the app, where, like it's like a quick it's called a quick note or whatever. And if you see how small it is, like it is tiny, right, and imagine the people that wear glasses are saying it's tiny. So what does it look like? For me, you know, like it's so small. And then when the trainer, like raised it, the process that they want me to go through for this to be dealt with, it's like it's. I find it a bit ridiculous because they're like oh, your manager has to raise you with IT, but I'm like I don't think IT even made the app, so it was just so confusing. So it's like okay, you have to raise a ticket with IT. So I'm like, why is there not a direct person that you can just address an email to, if that makes sense, instead of having to go through this process? Because raising a ticket is like raising a ticket of any issue. Do you get my point? So this is a specialized issue, so how are they going to deal with that?
Speaker 2:I just think, like I've been in my company for 15 years and I've rarely had support when it comes to my vision and I think that that's why I've stayed in a job that's physical, because when it comes to like having vision impairment and stuff, like it's not easy. And when people say like people say yeah, there's laws and people have to make adjustments, but the process they want to make you go through just to receive that help, it can be really frustrating and sometimes I think that's why, like I push my eyes to just see, even though I can't see properly, like I'll just force myself, but that causes me migraines, um, bad migraines um. It causes my eyes to feel like really strained and blurry and sometimes I feel it feels a bit dark and warm and like all these different things, it puts a lot of pressure on my eyes and it can be really frustrating, but sometimes, like what you have to go through to get that help. It can just be so, it could just be so frustrating and you just can't be bothered, or I can't be bothered because you just feel like you're begging at times. So it can be really frustrating.
Speaker 2:So like I'm still going through that battle at work as well, where I'm just trying to push myself to stand up for myself. You know, because with me I have the same thing with my colleagues. I think they they don't realize or they completely forget that I can't see properly because I'll just get on with it. But then when they like come and like try to point out stuff, and I'm like but you do understand that that was not intentional, like I was, I was not able to see that, but it's like they will come and attack me for it first, instead of coming to me, and then I start feeling, I start attacking, saying why couldn't you see it? Why could you know?
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:So it can be really tough and like once again. That's why I say, where you're reminded that you're different, I think that's the best way to say it.
Speaker 1:And I guess with humans as well, we all have expectations of our mind of how we see things.
Speaker 1:So I would use shay, for example. Um, I'm aware of her, like you know, like if it gets dark she might not be able to see, or certain things like that, because we've been friends for a very long time, so I'm just aware of certain things that my mind will just click on. However, somebody else, probably seeing her maybe in a a little dim or not so dark situation, be like oh well, you could see through here. Why can't you see now and I think that's the things that we need to stop when we're dealing with anybody not to just assume or to make up something if somebody's saying that they need help, whether they was able to do it when it was a little bit dark or she's been there before, so she's used to that environment, she's familiar to not all automatically judge, when dealing with somebody that has a disability, to just always see it as a new situation.
Speaker 1:Um, because I got that a lot with before. I used to be able to, um, listen to music and listen to somebody in the car, but now I can't because I'm having to learn it again.
Speaker 1:And now people don't have patience with me when I'm driving and I'm like, oh, can you say that again? Because it's hard to concentrate, because I need to concentrate to listen, so I'm not missing out on what you're saying, but I'm also driving, so I'm concentrating on the road and I now people now get irritated because it's just like well, all these years you could hear, why can't you hear now? And when I tried to explain to them about lockdown, not having a car and in like for those periods has really set me back, but for them they don't understand. And I just got to the point where I used to get upset when I'm like no, just say it again, because they're getting frustrated like the third time saying it, but it's like you're on my death side, so I can't hear you so it got to the point where I just started praying for people to just be patient and if they don't want to say it's okay.
Speaker 1:Like neither of us should get upset. Like if they're tired of repeating it's okay, I can't hear and that's life and because you know it's frustrating from both sides because we're getting upset for not being able to do something or or see something, or hear something or walk or do whatever, and then that person's probably getting frustrated at, like you know, trying to help because they don't have.
Speaker 1:Not everybody has the patience and not everybody has empathy to that level as well. But you know the amazing thing that in our in isaiah um, chapter 35, verses 5 and 6, the amazing thing that it says here. It says the eyes of the blind shall open and the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped. Then the lame shall leap like a deer and the tongue of the dumb shall sing, for water shall burst forth in the wilderness and streams in the desert.
Speaker 1:So it just shows that amen great day comes, you know like shay will have 360 vision let's not be 60, what is it 320? Yeah?
Speaker 2:2020 vision. I think it's 2020 vision.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:I mean, you never know, you know, you don't know what Yahweh's going to do. Honey, that is true. You never know, don't?
Speaker 1:underestimate honey, I'm going to have amplified sound the lady who had sepsis and lost her limbs. She's going to be able to just walk and, you know, hold her children. The day will come when all of this will no longer be and I think, remember that we're born into sin. It's easier said than done. We're all individuals. What I can say for somebody else who's deaf in one ear or has become deaf in one ear, um, it's different because I was born with it. So there's you know. But the main thing is is, when we're struggling is to pray and speak to your father and say I don't know how to deal with this, or I'm feeling attacked with this, or pray for that person that they have patience, or that you know. Or one of my favorite prayers I always pray with Shay is like Lord, when people are offending me, make me deaf and blind to blind to whatever they're doing, so that I don't feel judged or I don't take it on in my head. That's one of my prayers that I always pray.
Speaker 2:I need to start praying that prayer again. Thank you for reminding me I need to pray that prayer for work. That's an excellent prayer. Sometimes you forget your words. You know that you need to say yes, amen. Thank you for that reminder. Yeah, it's true, it's important to pray.
Speaker 2:I don't think I pray. This is definitely not a subject I pray about at all. I'm gonna be honest, um, I'm just used to getting on with it, but I've never thought to pray about like God's help. You know, just to guide me, just to guide my vision, help me to focus. You know there's different type of things.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and this week my effects has been lack of rest. I can feel it in my eyes. So by Wednesday it's like I had this kind of slight black or darkness. I can't even describe it. It's like my eyes looked funny because I'm tired. Um, tired is not even a word.
Speaker 2:But yeah, and you know, it's also to knowing, even if you've got difficulties, um special needs in any way, just, you need to take care of yourself, take care of your body, um make sure it's getting what it needs the best way you can, because all these things are elements that can affect you and for others who doesn't, who don't necessarily have any um difficulties, um, physical, um, maybe you have mental, or maybe you just know someone that does um.
Speaker 2:I just pray that this episode will help you with that awareness, or I pray that, like, even if we haven't mentioned anything, I pray that the holy spirit will help you with that awareness in that moment, with anyone you may come across, whether you know them or not. Um, yeah, because sometimes you just don't know and don't be scared or kind of like don't be scared or feel like you can't, you know, be with that, like help that person or be. Do you know what I mean? Like, because some people I feel like they feel like you know, they feel a bit scared to help someone that has a disability or they don't want to go near them. Do you know what I mean?
Speaker 2:or ask before you do yeah, well, yeah, that's what I'm saying like there's no harm in asking, um, even like with the elderly some elderly don't even want any help, but I'll still ask. You know, if they say no, that's fine, but you know it's the same thing with someone that's elderly. You know you can ask them and they might say no. So you know, just yeah, let's just love each other the best way we can, because that's what Yahweh wants us to do amen, amen, amen.
Speaker 1:To that would you like to say a prayer? I shall, I shall, I shall, and that's important that you mentioned about mental disability as well, because my mom has alzheimer's and there's people out there that has dementia, which their brain. They're losing their memory right which is causing them to not being able to do physical stuff or to think.
Speaker 2:So that's another one as well definitely, yeah, so you might be dealing with that, you might have a family member and you know so a lot of us might come across someone in our family with alzheimer's at some point, unfortunately. But you know, mean Like a type of dementia. Yeah, you know, it's happening more than ever, you know. So, yeah, it's just for us to just have that awareness. But let me pray Heavenly, holy and wonderful Father in heaven. Thank you so much, lord, for this wonderful episode that we've been able to dive into today. Thank you for this subject, heavenly Father, lord, and thank you, lord, for creating us all different. Without us all being different, lord, we'd be the exact same people walking around on this earth and the earth would never be the same. We'd be the exact same people walking around on this earth and the earth would never be the same. So thank you, father Lord, for creating us all different, whether we have a disability or not. Father Lord, I want to ask you to please be with all of us, heavenly Father, lord, to have an awareness, lord, of others, lord, who are of a special need in any way, whether mental or physical. Help us, heavenly Father, lord, who are supporting others, lord, with a special need in any way, whether mental or physical. Help us, heavenly Father Lord, who are supporting others. Lord with a special need. Lord in heaven, help us all with the patience and the guidance, lord, to be able to do so For those of us who do have a special need. Help us every day, heavenly Father Lord, as we maneuver through this world. Continue to walk with Cece Lord, with her hearing. Continue to walk with me with my vision and any of our listeners, heavenly Father Lord, who do have any type of disability. Lord, help them in their daily lives.
Speaker 2:I pray, heavenly Father Lord, that you may please be with those Lord in heaven who are around us or those who may come across in our daily lives. Lord in heaven, may we not feel judged. Lord in heaven, may they just, even. If they want to ask us questions, may they do so and help us to be open to answering those questions, because education is important and through that, lord in heaven, others can learn and they can even pass on that education to others, lord, and that's how we spread that understanding to the rest of the world. So, father God, I want to thank you, lord, once again for this subject and I just pray, heavenly Father Lord, that you may help us, heavenly Father, lord, as we journey through life every day. Lord, thank you for our listeners worldwide and we just pray that they'll continue to be blessed, lord, by what you're placing on our hearts to share with them. We love you, lord, in your blessed Son's name, jesus Christ, as we pray Amen.
Speaker 1:Amen. So thank you guys for listening. Remember to be kind to yourself, be kind to others, and I'm happy. Thank you for listening that we've reached our 20th episode. Yeah, and we'll see you in two weeks.
Speaker 2:We'll see you in two weeks. Ciao.