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         For those of you with handicapped children, I say: Their spirits are not handicapped, but they are healthy and strong. It is only the flesh that houses them that is weak or impaired. So love them as I would love them, and care for them as I would care for them, for inasmuch as you have done it unto the least of these, you have done it unto Me.
         I will use these children as a witness to reach others that you could not otherwise reach. These handicapped ones are tools to reach certain sectors you would not be able to reach otherwise. They are a means to relate to those who are likewise deaf or blind, both physically and spiritually. They are a way to become all things to all men. This is why I have made them that way, that they may be a tool of My love. These are great opportunities. These are effectual open doors. Every handicap is a doorknob that has to be turned and opened.
         Each of these has not come to slow you down, but to make of you better, more loving vessels. They are not given to you as chastisements or because you have sinned, but as teachers, as opportunities, as keys to your heart, to open a door of love that you did not know was there, to make you into more of a vessel of compassion, sympathy and understanding, to both your loved ones and to the world.
         These "uncomely" ones shape your future in a greater way than you understand, which you'll be thankful for after you see how they have deepened your lives and opened the channel from your heart to the reservoir of My love, that you may pour out this love to the needy.
         These handicapped ones pave a highway to Heaven, the road of service I have called for you to travel. Along the way I have placed many there for you and your handicapped children to minister to. At the end of that highway there awaits not only the crown, but a healed spiritual body in its fullness, to accompany the fullness of spirit.



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