For Friends of the Handicapped

Blessed are you who take the time

To listen to difficult speech,

For you help me to know that

If I preserve, I will be understood.

Blessed are you who never bid me

To “hurry up”

Or take my tasks from me

And do them for me

For I often need time rather than help.

Blessed are you who stand beside me as

I enter new and untried ventures,

For my failures will be outweighed

By the times I surprise myself and you.

Blessed are you who ask for my help,

For my greatest need is to be needed.

Blessed are you who understand that

It is difficult for me to put my thoughts

into words.

Bless are you who never remind me

That today I asked the same question

twice.

Blessed are you who respect me,

And love me just the way I am.

-Anonymous