The Man

I saw a man this week eating dinner with his wife and another couple. They were all in high spirits and having great conversation. But while everyone cut there steak and shoved their mouths full... he looked at his plate. He was paralyzed from the neck down and had to depend on his wife to fead him. She would take a bite of her food, and he would wait... then she would feed him a bite of his food and their dinner would just continue on. The acts were completed as if it were nothing, as if there was nothing wrong with the man. He was totally dependant upon his wife, and she humbly served him because of her love for him.

It was cool to watch. He had a cool chair, he moved it with his chin. I loved how he was treated like a normal person. He respected and was respected. He wasnt a disabled man, he was a man out to dinner with his wife. He was polite and curteous and joyful. I looked at him and saw Jesus.

He really helped me visualize what we are like with Jesus. We are helpless and paralyzed and completely dependent on him. Sometimes things take a little while longer done his way.... but he is the way the truth and the life... there is no other way. He humble serves us and if we accept his love, we can be full of his joy and not sulk in our insecurities or indificiences of being sinful humans.