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<blockquote data-quote="DragonFox91" data-source="post: 77382512" data-attributes="member: 432108"><p>I finished My Body Is Not A Prayer Request by Amy Kenney</p><p></p><p>The book is a call to treat those w/ physical & mental disabilities w/ dignity, to be accommodating to their needs & not just brush them off, & to not dwell on eschatology or the reason for it.</p><p></p><p>I thought the book was largely ‘woe is me’. She spends most of the book whining. If you try to be welcoming to her, she whines you’re pitying her, but if you don’t, you’re not being welcome. She spends lots of the book saying how evil churches are, & maybe they are, but a church-going Christian woman in her 40s or so can only give a couple examples in 200 pages of people who have shown genuine kindness to her?????</p><p></p><p>Her sections on theology are very good. She finds good teachings in the examples of Jacob, Paul, Jesus himself, plus some more obscure Biblical examples. I really enjoyed her theology sections. She sees the goodness of God in the Bible & it’s beautiful, but she doesn’t see it in her life & doesn’t see it in others, like she's refusing not to, & it hurts.</p><p></p><p>I learned in this book to be more accommodating to those in the community myself & to work on not whining myself. I also learned examples of disability in the Bible I didn’t know.</p><p></p><p>I recommend this book to those struggling accepting the disabled as human beings or need a lesson in grattitude</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DragonFox91, post: 77382512, member: 432108"] I finished My Body Is Not A Prayer Request by Amy Kenney The book is a call to treat those w/ physical & mental disabilities w/ dignity, to be accommodating to their needs & not just brush them off, & to not dwell on eschatology or the reason for it. I thought the book was largely ‘woe is me’. She spends most of the book whining. If you try to be welcoming to her, she whines you’re pitying her, but if you don’t, you’re not being welcome. She spends lots of the book saying how evil churches are, & maybe they are, but a church-going Christian woman in her 40s or so can only give a couple examples in 200 pages of people who have shown genuine kindness to her????? Her sections on theology are very good. She finds good teachings in the examples of Jacob, Paul, Jesus himself, plus some more obscure Biblical examples. I really enjoyed her theology sections. She sees the goodness of God in the Bible & it’s beautiful, but she doesn’t see it in her life & doesn’t see it in others, like she's refusing not to, & it hurts. I learned in this book to be more accommodating to those in the community myself & to work on not whining myself. I also learned examples of disability in the Bible I didn’t know. I recommend this book to those struggling accepting the disabled as human beings or need a lesson in grattitude [/QUOTE]
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