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Story Archives: Weekly devotional: Oct. 18, 2012


Weekly devotional: Oct. 18, 2012
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By GARY ANDREWS
gary@gadevotionals.com

As we travel down life's highway each day we are going to be around certain people that we think are subpar to us because of physical or mental handicaps. I wonder just how off base or warped our minds could be, because people with handicaps are more sensitive to others than we ever thought to be. They are also more appreciative of what they have instead of what they don't have.

I am reminded of a story of several business men running through an airport trying to make a plane schedule. As they hurried along one or more of them bumped an apple cart being cared for by a young blind girl. Apples went everywhere and the men knowing they had to make the plane hurried on their way without stopping.

Within a few yards from the stand one of the men realized he needed to stop and help the young lady even though he would miss his plane.
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