Pray that the Lord forgives your sins, for this is biblical and true.
It is a prideful thing to refuse to repent.
Pray that He grants you true repentance..not mere regret over consequences..
My older brother was born with cerebral palsy.
My mother almost died giving birth to him.
Half his body doesn’t work. He can’t even grasp a fork with one hand. He wears out shoes every few months from dragging one leg.
And yet I will never forget the night my younger brother spiraled into depression, seriously questioning whether life was still worth living. It was my older brother, through tears and sobbing, who pleaded with him to see the good still waiting.
I remember how he described the little joys of life in ways I had never considered. He noticed beauty I had walked right past. Through his eyes, life felt richer and fuller.
I am grateful for his perspective every day and infinitely grateful he is alive.
Because in a body that fights him at every turn, he still chose to become the light for someone else. And that choice didn’t just save my brother.
He taught us what it really means to live.
He’s living proof that everyBODY, no matter how broken, deserves the chance to love this life and find its quiet joys.
The leper in Mark 1 came to Jesus saying, “If You are willing, You can make me clean.” His faith was not rooted in certainty about the outcome, but in confidence in Christ’s power and goodness. He did not presume upon Jesus’ will; he entrusted himself to it. This is the essence of biblical faith: trusting God for who He is, even when we do not know what He has ordained.
The healing of the leper reminds us that faith is not about control. Many in Scripture did not know how their circumstances would unfold, yet they entrusted themselves to God. True faith is not determining your own destiny but resting in the hands of the Shepherd who orders your steps.
The miracle also reveals God’s holiness. In the Old Testament, leprosy symbolized the uncleanness of sin. Just as the unclean were separated from God’s people, so sin separates us from God, who is perfectly holy and cannot permit evil in His presence.
Yet Jesus does what no one else could. He touches the leper and makes him clean. What David longed for in Psalm 51 and what the sacrifices pointed toward is fulfilled in Christ. Through Him, sinners are washed, cleansed, and restored to fellowship with God.
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I watched this video expecting to come away thinking about the realities of raising a child with significant additional needs. Instead, I found myself reading the comments and wondering how we still have such a poor understanding of disability in 2026.
What struck me was not people acknowledging that caring for a child with complex needs can be difficult. That is simply reality. Parents and carers live that reality every single day and there is nothing wrong with speaking honestly about it.
What unsettled me was how quickly the conversation moved from ‘this looks hard’ to ‘this child should never have been born.’
I saw comments suggesting she should have been terminated. Comments suggesting her life was a burden. Comments suggesting that the mother’s devotion and care were somehow evidence that the pregnancy should have been terminated.
As a social worker who has spent years working alongside disabled children, disabled adults and families caring for children with additional needs. I have seen exhaustion, grief, parents worry endlessly about the future, siblings make sacrifices, families fighting for support that should never have been so difficult to access.
But I have also seen is love, joy, connection, resilience, humour, achievement and lives that have value far beyond the limitations that other people place upon them.
The little girl in this video is not a thought experiment. She is not a political argument about abortion. She is not a cautionary tale. She is a child. A child whose life has worth simply because she exists.
You do not have to pretend that raising a child with significant disabilities is easy. It isn’t. You do not have to believe you would personally be able to cope with that level of responsibility. Many people probably couldn’t.
But there is a huge moral difference between acknowledging the challenges of disability and deciding that a disabled person’s life is less valuable than anyone else’s.
Perhaps what disturbed me most was realising that some people watched that mother’s patience, love and commitment and saw tragedy. I watched the same video and saw a mother doing her absolute best for a daughter she clearly adores.
If your first reaction to a vulnerable child is to question whether they should exist, then the issue is not the child. The issue is what has happened to our capacity for empathy.
This is a weird tweet because you asked and I answered. You weren't expecting my answer. I gave you one and you now descended to whatever this is.
People mehn..
@Echoboxbrain@Ilerioluwakiye_ the fact you can’t imagine a disabled person not seeing themselves as broken says way more about you than it does about me.
Is it A LOT of work to care for a person with DS? Yes
Is that good enough reason to end a human life? No
What then should we do? Build churches, families and communities that share the burden of care and make life more bearable for those facing significant challenges.
The Christian answer has never been to eliminate the vulnerable because caring for them is costly. The Christian answer has been to bear one another’s burdens.
When Christians remained behind to care for the sick during plagues, they were not choosing the easiest path. They were choosing love.
So what we need is not fewer people who require care, but stronger communities willing to share the burden of care.
Imagine our disabled brothers and sisters reading your tweets, are you insinuating that their parents made a mistake birthing them?
Because if you follow your logic truthfully, this is where it eventually leads to.
Guys, we need to be careful.
When we confess the Nicene creed, we take a stance on life. When we say:
“We believe in the Holy Spirit,
the Lord, the giver of life…”
It means the God we serve is the author of life and he grants life as gift to all who participate in existence.
This is the faith we profess
A society that says some children are better off not existing is not becoming more compassionate.
This is dehumanisation disguised as being compassionate.
Imagine our disabled brothers and sisters reading your tweets, are you insinuating that their parents made a mistake birthing them?
Because if you follow your logic truthfully, this is where it eventually leads to.
Guys, we need to be careful.