Questions Not Asked

In this 2008 presidential election some questions and issues are being left out and ignored as usual.


When are the candidates going to mention Native Americans? When was the last time a candidate had a nationally televised forum centered on the issues of people with disabilities? And what about the Deaf community? Or little people? And the list goes on. It's usually the same old arguments with the presidential debates.

Conservative vs. liberal.

But when was the last time that either side really advocated for those groups of people? When have they made a big push to bring their issues to the forefront?

It's clear that we have a war in Iraq, that our economy is struggling and our environment needs preservation. But let's not forget about the other stuff.

What are some questions you'd like to hear the presidential candidates discuss?

Breakdancers With Disabilities

What would you do if you lost one of your legs?

Would you let that stop you from following your dreams or would you be creative and figure out another way to make it happen?

These two guys didn't let their disability stop them from dancing. We could all learn a lesson from them on never giving up.



(Hat tip to We Need to Stop!)

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disABLED

It was crunch time, finals were hitting me heavy when I was working on a story for my newswriting class last year about Northeastern University students with disabilites. As I was sitting in the lobby of the Disability Resource Center waiting for a crucial interview with someone from the office, I picked up a magazine called Careers & the disABLED and started browsing through it. There was something special about how they lettered the work disabled. They used lowercase letters on the 'dis' part and caps on the 'ABLED' part. It was a smart and quick way to get this point across: "Don't focus on what you can't do. Channel your energy on what you CAN do!" That really stuck with me. It's amazing how the lettering of one simple word can express so much.

Sometimes I wonder if God is trying to reach out to us like that. What words is He trying to make us see in a different light? What things in our lives is He trying to captialize?

Maybe God wants us to focus on being CHRISTians instead of us trying to be cool and getting our own way. Or maybe God wants us have compassion for pornSTARS who are being misused and mistreated when they were created to shine for Christ.

I won't pretend like I have it all together because I don't. God knows it, I know it, my family knows and if you met me you'd know it too. But I cling to this promise: "in my weakness He is strong" and "His strength is made perfect in weakness".

I'm quite fine with Jesus being the function in my dysFUNCTION. He loves me and I understand that spiritual maturity is a journey.

II Corinthians 12:9-10: But he said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness." Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ's power may rest on me. That is why, for Christ's sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.