Thanks, Wanda! Glad you liked it!

Mag

~Tamar Mag Raine
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Oakland Mayor's Commission on People with disabilities


> [Original Message]
> From: <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: 12/20/2004 11:05:27 PM
> Subject: Re: my article was published
>
> In a message dated 12/20/2004 8:13:02 PM Central Standard Time,=20
> [log in to unmask] writes:=20
> > http://www.inclusiondaily.com/news/advocacy/raine121704.htm
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> It must be hell on parents to see their children struggle with
disabilities;=
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> I know my own father grieves about mine. Yet, he and other parents of
childr=
> en=20
> with disabilities often feel stronger, and even grateful for the
experience.=
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> It must be so hard to look at your beautiful child and know that many
people=
> =20
> will not be able to see their beauty, their light. Perhaps God has
something=
> =20
> else in mind when She allows a child to have a disability. For it is in
livi=
> ng=20
> and struggling that we grow as human beings, it is in developing
compassion=20=
> for=20
> others that we grow spiritually, it is in assisting others to become all
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> y=20
> can be, that we receive life=E2=80=99s richest blessing. This applies to
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> h the=20
> parents as well as people with disabilities.=20
>
> BRAVO, MAG, BRAVO!!!!!! You are soooooo correct.
> Thank you for a beautiful article. Congratulations on the publication.
>
> Wanda=20