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sometimes
it's better to shut up
and let others speak
like ann
...

someone recently said something like
"it's not so much that the poor and disadvantaged need us
we need them
they enrich us in ways nothing else can
we end up being the blessed
when we bless them"

from ann's blog ..
And all I can think is how I read it once, how one out of every 4 people in a small town was deaf.

So everyone in town learned sign language.

Those without hearing loss— entered into hearing loss, imagined it, walked in it, learned to sign through it – so those with hearing loss could gain a fuller life. The non-deaf disadvantaged themselves, inconvenienced themselves, to learn sign language – so the deaf wouldn’t struggled through disadvantaged, inconsequential lives.

And it was the non-deaf whose lives were enhanced in unexpected ways.

Who not only gained rich relationships with deaf neighbors they would have missed out on otherwise— they discovered the convenience of signing across the street to one another, of sign language communicating from atop hills to folks below, of the sick signing what they needed when voices failed, of children signing to avoid being loud.

Disadvantaging themselves —turned out to be to their advantage. Entering into loss – enriched their lives.

read the rest of it here
http://www.aholyexperience.com/2013/06/how-to-be-beautiful-have-a-beautiful-home-life/