In this season of continued healing, I am soaking the powerful words of Julia Watts Belser deep into my own bones:

“Disability has taught me much about the potent spiritual subversiveness of being radically comfortable in my own skin, of daring to find the presence of God in this fierce and fragile flesh…

It reminds me of a story I heard from Rabbi Margaret Moers Wening, about a Deaf child in her religious school. A teacher once promised that child, “One day, in the world to come, you’ll be able to hear.” And the child looked back and said, “No. In the world to come, God will sign.”