A time to think about Jesus and the family, especially God’s gift to everyone, including people with disabilities like myself!
I often get ‘pity’ or ‘feeling sorry’ for I am deaf by other people, BUT they do not actually realise Jesus gave me a gift – deaf among with other skills such as leadership, advocacy, mentoring, ability to do problem-solving etc. Whenever I meet new people, and I tell them that I am deaf. The new people gain some shock or disbelieve that I am not deaf because I speak if they do not sign to me. I am happy that I was born deaf and got the ability to become independent from an early age to the present. I do not need a cochlear implant or any other type of medical devices that make me hear better. Yes, I do have a pair of hearing aids, and I use for work, around the home and in the community. I know some of the people blame themselves or feeling guilty if their child or one of the members in the household when a child/person became a disability. Then they turn to look for a cure under medical/science. For example, my hearing partner – Peter suffered 28%-33% of burns during his bad experience with his ex-family in the past, and Peter also had two hip implants during his motorbike accident. He did not blame himself, and his past is no longer with him because his life is moving forward where Peter is happy and enjoying with our dogs and me in our home. Peter is on the journey by rebuilding the relationship with his son and his new family. That is a start from 2013 to present.
Everyone is different in their own lives! Not everyone is Christain, Muslim, even non-Christian or Atheists.
Wars and fighting around the world, people, including children, are starving, becoming more poverty, homeless and many other issues. The weather such as firestorm, tornado, heatwave, even a volcano erupted, play a significant impact on people’s lives and their homes, businesses where they lost everything.
We can not control Mother’s Nature in here, and we need to learn to live with this and change the way we do, e.g. chopping all the trees down and suddenly caused to have a landslip. We need to plant new trees to control the soils in the ground to prevent from landslip, for shelter/shades even to build a new home or furniture.
Reflected in 2019, it has been a rough start for anyone:
- bushfires in Australia, California, Europe
- the heatwave in Europe and Australia,
- violent storms in Asia, the volcano erupted recently in New Zealand
- violent wars
- families and friends who lost their loved ones, including our family, lost an aunty.
- the epidemic of measle in New Zealand, Samoa
- the protesting over Brexit in the United Kingdom and Europe
- and many other issues around the world
Every early hour of the morning, I woke up to find a sunrise over our existing house and the new vegetable and fruit gardens. Count me blessings for I wonder what God provides a job for me to do before I start work. My faith is remaining strong and find a way to do the work for our home and garden, to assist people with disabilities even Deaf people, the people in the community whenever I go and visit, involve with many Advisory and Leadership groups.
Of course, some people often left me out or tend to forget about my turn to speak (sign) during one of the Leadership meetings. Usually, not everyone took my advice that will work for them, sadly they choose somewhere else and often does not work or found a bit of problem. I read one of the poems and here is one which is useful. It is called “Don’t Quit” by John Greenleaf Whittier.
Life in Eureka 