Charles Darwin was right: 'We differ more in the degree to which we use our abilities than in the sum total of our abilities.' It is also true that persons differ more in the degree to which they use their disabilities than in the sum total of their disabilities.

Give one person the handicap of blindness, and they rot, and complain. Give another blindness and you have a Milton with a Paradise Lost - and Regained.

That isn't to say that every handicapped person is a potential genius... but it is to say that in everyone of us there are untapped sources of power, unknown abilities, unused energies that are more than sufficient - with God's help - to compensate for any handicap, any deficiency, any hardships, any opposition, if only we'll refuse to park by our handicaps and move on beyond them. A term now used by some instead of 'handicapped' or 'disabled' is 'differently abled'...

'Adversity', says Doctor Sangster in one of his sermons 'is one of our greatest teachers. God polishes his jewels that way.'

And if that's your intention with me, Lord, I will not complain. Use me as you will - I am your servant, and you know best how to evoke the potentials that lie within my spirit. Amen.