I read a blog recently on disabilities and the Gospel. It was written by a man whose son was born with multiple disabilities, so he read the Gospel through the lens of his experience, as I suppose we all do to some degree. I was tracking until he proposed that the reason Christ, when He revealed Himself to the disciples after His resurrection, didn’t heal His broken body, but kept the holes in his hands and feet and the wounds on his side in tact, was that he would be able to relate to people with disabilities. I stopped reading and mulled that over. I concluded that this gentleman, though sincere in his premise based on his trying to make sense of his son’s disability, had a very narrow and misguided view of the Gospel of Christ and what the Bible has to say about those with disabilities...
