Today I was sitting at lunch with my mother and sister and there was a girl sitting right beside us that had to have been around Rach and I's age, she was in a wheelchair. I am not sure what or why she was in the chair but you could tell had surgery on from the scar on her throat. She had this amazing glow about her as she talked to her friend with a huge smile on her face. As I looked to the table behind us, there were three other women/girls sitting there gossiping about so and so or talking about how terrible things were at school/work. And as I sat there I thought how can someone like this sit right here not able to do everything like normal and have a huge smile on their face while someone that's perfectly normal just have the worst attitude about everything and rolling their eyes at people? I think all three of us were thinking the same thing with, how do some things happen to certain people and not to others? Why do some live all their life with nothing like that to deal with and others do? Anyone I have met with a disability has light or glow to their face that you just can't explain.
As I got up I smiled at her and she smiled back saying "Hello" and my heart just broke for her, even though she would probably look at me and go "why do you feel bad, because I don't..." It's amazing what these people go through and what they teach us and how strong a person can be. I like to consider them angels in a way that remind us that life is a great thing but it's how you live it that others see. You have to live life to the fullest because you don't know what tomorrow holds and always count your blessings, even going through the darkness.
Have an amazing Thursday evening!
-Ashley
Psalms 34: 12-15
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