For fellow disabled people: Remember a time when someone said or did something ableist toward you. Re-create the narrative with words, pictures, or meditations in a way that reimagines the event without ableism. This is not to minimize the harm or accept the ableism, but to try to edit the event in your mind to imagine how God might reassure you of your own belovedness in that moment. How might God remind you of how beloved you are? What would you want to be called instead of the ableist word? How would you want to be treated? Sit in the feeling of the edited moment, emphasizing your own worth
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