Fearfully and Wonderfully Made - May 3, 2026

As we go out this week, I encourage you to think about how you can be an ally to the disability community. And whether you have someone in your life who you know or whether this is something that you can grow into, I invite you to acknowledge, to learn, to leverage, and to yield, to be an ally. And I pray that you will be able to do this and all the things that God has called you to and the power that Christ gives us. The name of the father, the son, and the holy spirit, one god, and mother of us all. Amen. [01:09:57] (33 seconds)  #BeAnAlly

So we're walking a fine line here and I don't feel like I'm an expert in this subject, but I want to, in today's talk, look at a few definitions and a few encouragements of what we can do to be allies to the the disability community. So I wanted to just kinda read this definition of eugenics. It's aimed at improving the human race through selective breeding. It's often rooted in racism and in ableism. An ableism is the set of beliefs and practices that devalue and discriminate against people with physical, intellectual, or psychiatric disabilities. [00:38:12] (44 seconds)  #EndAbleism

And the idea that we can be healers out of our woundedness, connecting to people through our brokenness, through our honesty, through our compassion, through our empathy, our vulnerability. In those ways, we can be wounded healers. And I believe that's a way that we can be mutually healing each other from allies to the disabled community back and forth in a reciprocal way. Not that we're here to make the world better or to heal people. Someone in the disability community said, everyone wants me to change, but maybe what needs to change is the world around me. [00:48:23] (44 seconds)  #MutualHealing

And here's the crazy thing. The reason that the court denied their claim was because they said that they were discriminated against as a class of African American women, of black women. The court said, you can't do that. That's tricking that's tricking people. You could say, I have I've been discriminated against because of my race or you could say, I'm being discriminated against because of my gender. But you can't put those two things together and say you're a black woman. What's a what is that? That's not we don't have a category in our laws for that. This is of course [00:42:20] (33 seconds)  #IntersectionalJustice