What I can say is that by living with people with disabilities I’ve discovered my own disabilities: the gradual discovery that there is anger within us, there is violence within us, and we have to work at that. It’s the Holy Spirit helping me to discover who I am and how things are within me. We cannot really begin to know the truth of ourselves until we discover we have difficulties. Community is the place where we discover our own fragilities, wounds, and inability to love, where our limitations, our fears, and our egoism are revealed to us. We cannot get away from the negative in ourselves.
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