Are you literate? Not can you read, but are you literate in the language of life?
Are you well-educated and learned when it comes to the transforming power of pain, to still reverence, to the quiet whisperings of grace?
We tend to think of ourselves as either literate or illiterate. But there is a third possibility: aliterate.
An aliterate person can read and write but has little interest in doing so, whether out of indifference to learning in general or from a preference for seeking information and entertainment by other means.
Today, which do you choose to be?
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Here's an interesting podcast from two adult amputees about how they deal with children staring at their prosthetics. My favorite part is when the mom says her child wanted to take her prosthetic leg to career day.
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