Beatitude For Friends of Cerebral Palsied 

"Blessed are you who take time to listen to the spastic speech:

        For you help us to know that if we persevere we can be understood.

Blessed are you who walk with us in public places and ignore the stares of strangers:

         For in your companionship we find havens of relaxation.

Blessed are you who never bid us hurry up and more blessed you who do not snatch our tasks from our hands to do them for us:

          For often we need time rather than help.

Blessed are you who stand beside us as we enter new and surprise ventures:

          For our failures will be outweighed by the time when we surprise ourselves and you.

Blessed are you when by all these things you assure us that the thing that makes us individuals is not our peculiar muscles, not in our nervous system, but in God-given self which no infirmity can confine. Rejoice and be exceedingly glad - and know that you give us reassurance that could never be spoken in words:

           For you deal with us as Jesus dealt with the slow, the blind, and the lame."

                                                                                                  Written by a Cerebral Palsy Adult

                                                                                                    Vivian Moffett