Mutual Friendship When Disability is Involved
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There’s a difference between ministering to someone who has a disability and really doing life with them. While barriers like staircases and narrow doorways may keep someone with a physical disability from entering a space, there are other barriers that keep them from genuine, deep friendship.
How can we take steps to tear down walls that isolate someone from community when they have a disability? How can we build true mutual friendships?
Today on the podcast, Crystal Keating is talking about friendship with Tracey Motoda, her good friend who has Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA) and is a wheelchair user.
We all want to be known and have relationships with other people, so listen as Crystal and Tracey share ways that you can really do life with a friend impacted by disability – what it means to have a deep, mutual friendship.
Let’s Talk About Suffering: What Does it Mean to “Suffer Strong?” – Katherine Wolf
Crystal Keating talks with Katherine Wolf, a trailblazer when it comes to disability and suffering. In 2008, at 26 years old, just 6 months after having a new baby boy, Katherine miraculously survived a catastrophic stroke. Now profoundly disabled, Katherine has learned to take joy in doing hard things in the good story God is writing in her life. Katherine and her husband Jay have used their second-chance lives to disrupt the myth that joy can only be found in a pain-free life.
