Two and a half years ago I started writing this BLOG because of the stigma of mental illness in the United States. Since then, this site has transformed from a "we are different - let's stand together" to a "we are ALL children of God". I think I prefer the second thought much more than the former. I may have a mental illness (bi-polar), but I'm not anymore different than you are. We are all unique.
The problem is, everyone tries to compare themselves (or others) to a "NORMAL" that doesn't exist. Everyone is doomed to fail when the measuring stick is broken. You see, we are all made in God's image. God wasn't made in our image! So how does that change things. Let me try to explain...
Think for a minute about the first picture you ever saw of God. Was he a white-haired, blue-eyed, Anglo-Saxon? or was he a dark-skinned, brown-eyed, African-American? or was he a she? We tend to take our heritage - our perspective, our normal - into consideration when we think about God. We do the same when we think about humankind.
We "feel sorry" for that child in the wheelchair and the blind lady at the bus stop. But perhaps we need to stop for a moment, because they may be feeling sorry for us, too. That blind woman has a heightened sense of her surroundings that we will never experience. Our "disabilities" may not fit the norm, but does that make them bad?
I chose to use my experiences from life to write this Blog. It's therapy for me and hopefully for the rest of you. After two and a half years of writing, I have readers from* the US to Russia to Slovenia. I feel God is using me in this capacity to help others - normal or not... and I take that challenge very seriously.
* United States, Germany, Belgium, Egypt, Hong Kong, Sri Lanka, Philippines, Russia, Turkey, UK, Mexico, Canada, Australia, India, China, Greece, Slovenia, and Denmark. Thank YOU!
Carol
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