Jesus loves me more than anyone else could. Jesus accepts me as I am. and he is always making me better.

“Draw the circle wide. Draw it wider still. Let this be our song. No one sits alone. Sitting side-by-side, draw the circle wide.”

Inshallah Choir has welcomed people of various genders, ages, races, ethnicities and musical abilities. It is now a place where at least 130 singers belong.

... people with disabilities are often marginalized as well. Long before Christian Horizons articulated our vision that ‘people who experience disabilities belong to communities in which their God-given gifts are valued and respected’, Jesus helped others see our crucial need to belong. He makes it possible for people to belong.

A kingdom vision is one without hunger, thirst, sickness, loneliness or imprisonment. Rather than, wasting time trying to determine who among us belongs to what category of "the least of these", can we work together and with God toward that vision instead?

Including people with disabilities can be an opportunity for creative disruption in the church and other places in society.

What would it look like if we welcomed one another as we are, and took the time to learn how to love each other well?

In John 9, Jesus rejects the idea that disability is tied to sin and exposes the pride of religious leaders who think they “see.” This reflection invites us to reconsider how the church includes—or excludes—people with disabilities today.

The movie Penguin Bloom is highly refreshing because it opens a window into the physical and emotional pain that is often associated with adjustment to disability [...] Most importantly it shows each member of the family journeying through their own experience of grief related to disability and eventually coming out the other side, not wishing to die but learning to spread their wings and fly with reinvigorated passion for life.

Well I finally did it. After three years of using this thing, I capsized my wheelchair; with me in it.