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There are couple of people who go around my campus in powered wheelchairs. Those things look like a lot of fun…:P
Excellent! Did you hear/read the last Whitley Lecture?
I only have a manual, but I am often heard to yell out “Move aside, bowling pins!” to folks standing on downhill slopes.
Apparently his “terrible affliction” is his aggressive driving
Here’s the Q – who needs to be healed? Perhaps the person in the wheelchair is perfectly happy as he is and doesn’t need some Benny Hinn wannabe to get in his way.
Actually saw something very like this happen in real life once!
It was probably more important for people to get healed in bible times and places where you had no chance to provide for yourself with any kind of dignity.
So much better to value people as they are (and our flawed selves as we are) and challenge the views, practices and structures that cause discrimination.
In my opinion anyway.
That’s hilarious
This one made me laugh very hard. Great joke!
Healings were often more about restoration into society because of the way people were viewed as outcasts.
What is easier to say? Get up and walk or your sins are forgiven?
Think about the levitical laws about leprosy. You weren’t sick and that was your main problem. You were sick and you were kicked out of the city and banished.
Jesus caused a storm by curing them – and then sending them to the temple to get readmitted into society!
Sorry – just to be explicit in what I am saying, it was a society problem!
lol
Is the guy in the chair the same one as in 801?
love it
thank you! : D
Laura (4) haha! He should have a minimum 12 month ban…
themethatisme… haha!
allatsea… you certainly make a thought provoking point.
i also like what you’re saying, robb.
you’re welcome, chris.
This gimp thanks you for this!
I knew I was getting it wrong, trying to build graceful relationships, trying to listen to the other person.
Love this and have had to get myself out of these situations a couple of times…
unfortunately i’ve never had the opportunity to leave wheel marks owing to the fact that I don’t use a wheelchair…..but mayb sometime in the future….
laura and carole… stuff the driving ban, this man should be awarded a medal!!!
amy, you’re welcome. great blog you have btw… it gave me an idea for a cartoon.
kulkat2… if you should ever find yourself in a wheelchair, be sure to get one with really good treads. that way you’ll make your point better.
in the meantime, a solid boot or a large stick will do just fine. 
subo… oh how naive you are. you should be busy healing people and making yourself look great, not relating to people. whatever next?!
That was so funny.I hate doctors,they make out that they care but really their quite fonney and theres nothing worse than hypocrites.Yes Jesus does heal but most doctores just really want to keep people sick!!!!Ive seen alot of doctors and not one of them told me about Jesus!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I get sick of all this ‘God wants to heal you’ stuff. Cos what happens if you don’t get healed? Who gets the blame? Not God, that’s for sure. I know how their nasty, little minds work and soon you’re being accused of something.
“Multiple exclamation marks…are a sure sign of a diseased mind.”
Terry Pratchett – Eric.
Tiggy – but what if you do?
Well it’s too late now, He should have done it earlier. It’s not like I haven’t been open to the idea or tried. And I’ve trusted people in the past, but I’ll not allow hope to keep me hostage to those people. This is the year in which I’ve finally learned that no one gives a damn.
I’m reluctant to go to church this morning because I have a bad crick in my neck and I know someone is gonna try and pray for me.
I think if we’ve become afraid of prayer then something is very wrong. God wants us to live this life, in this place, with all our frailty – but jesus tells me to pray for the sick, so i do – the outcome of that is not in my hands, the only thing i control is my willingness to stand with another person in their pain. God doesn’t need people to impose his will on others, he just asks us to pray and help each other.
Tiggy, i know nothing of your journey but i’ve often been surprised by how much of a damn people give when push comes to shove and however badly it’s expressed.
Nathan, I know that feeling. I daren’t mention I’ve even got a headache at my church or someone will leap up and lay hands on me. I really think people should ask first. It’s quite annoying when there are all sorts of practical things I need help with, like collecting second hand stuff off Freecyle as I don’t have a car or setting my tv up.
Robin – I don’t know many people as I moved to a new city this year. I was thinking mainly of those I do know like my family, my former best friend and one-time soulmate and one other particular person who’s happy to walk by on the other side.
Tiggy, if i may, i’ll keep you in my prayers – if there’s anything more material i can do then you can contact me through my website by clicking on my name at the bottom of this comment.
I love this! I am a wheelchair user and I get so annoyed with well-meaning people trying to “deliver” me from my wheelchair/ disability/ sin etc. For too long the church has had a theology of healing without a theology of disability and it leaved me feeling cold. Healing is much more than being fixed. I can be whole as a person and still use a wheelchair, enjoy life and think/ feel/ work in a professional job/ be in leadership within my local church and community. *rant over – steps off soap box*
I did have some fun at a certain christian conference a couple of years ago – there had been a focus on healing during the week, and got increasingly frusrated with a certain imported celebraty from a church in the US, because following his talks, random people kept coming up to me in order to “pray”. It all got a bit tiring to say the least! As the conference was held on an agricultural showground, accessibility was not that great and having struggled to push myself down a stretch of path, I decided to get out of my chair and walk a few steps. People stood and gawped like mad – my reaction was to shout very loudly “It’s a miracle I can walk – halleluiah!! ” and continued! The reaction was hilarious to say the least.
Thank you, Robin, only just saw your post. I don’t mind people remembering me in their prayers; I just don’t like them putting their hands all over me. A complete stranger did it to me in a church once – a church I’d never been to before – he was standing behind me in the pew and I felt most uncomfortable. In fact I made a complaint.
People WILL take liberties! There’s a guy at my church who spends half the service staring at my cleavage. I wouldn’t want him laying hands on me.
Wheel Thing (great name!), a friend of mine is doing a PhD (or it may be an MA, I’ve forgotten) on ‘Spirituality and Disability’. He’s blind and training to be a minister. His sermons are always very thought provoking so I look forward to reading it.
Oops, I just realised I said, ‘A complete stranger did it to me in a church once’. Oh dear!