I thought I was going teach a bible lesson to the students of New Horizon School for children with intellectual difficulties, but they ended up giving me a good bible lesson!
Happiness, love and acceptance is the order of the day at New Horizon. There are many different forms of disability there. Some are confined to wheelchairs while others can only make muffled sounds in the form of speech. However, nobody is despised, nobody is looked down upon. Only last week, I was touched by how one little girl run to give each of her friends a hug as they came to school that morning. It didn’t matter what they looked like or how they acted, she loved them and wanted to show it! 1 Peter 4:8 came to mind: Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins.
How often do we who are ‘normal’ constantly notice the differences of others and use those differences to criticise and create division among ourselves? Even children will not play with those who are perceived to be of a different social class than they are. Jesus told his disciples, “A new command I give you. Love one another.” John 13:34 If these are the words of the Master Himself, what have we to do but to obey!
Now that you have purified yourselves by obeying the truth so that you have sincere love for your brothers, love one another deeply, from the heart. 1 Pet. 1:22
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