Blessings

I was blessed with the opportunity to help with a Special Olympics Power lifting competition today. I've never really had the opportunity to really work with special needs people like that, but after today I can honestly say i have been missing out. They are some of the most loving people and have a heart of gold! Just watching them brought a grin to my face. I think about how some people blame God for making disabled people, as if they are a bother to society, but after being around them, i think God blessed us with these people. God blesses us in ways we cannot even begin to understand. He made these amazing people who are full of love and adoration, and i wonder if we are really loving them like Christ does. How often do we actually take the time to get to know a special needs person? I think sometimes we avoid them, not because of dislike but because we don't know how to respond to them. But do we really even take the time to learn how? I know I'm guilty of this. In the end though, the person who was really missing out was me.