by jtrotter1 | Mar 30, 2021 | Uncategorized
During our five years in the Carrick neighborhood of Pittsburgh, our family did everything possible to make Jesus known through all things neighborly. Our son Amos was just 1 when we arrived, and we would push him up and down the hills in his little stroller as we...
by jtrotter1 | Jan 29, 2021 | blindness and disability
So, I have some friends who get it right. They just do. I can sometimes be a bit snarky about living a blind life in a sighted world. Yeah, there are certainly those who don’t get it and never will but there are some really awesome people out there. Today I was on...
by jtrotter1 | Nov 24, 2020 | Uncategorized
A picture is worth a thousand words. If you can see it, yes, that is true. If that picture cannot be seen, it is worth nothing. The disabled and the able-bodied have very different ways they experience the world. They will inevitably have different ways in which they...
by jtrotter1 | Nov 24, 2020 | blindness and disability, spiritual formation
Yeah, that is not the greatest question ever posed. It is sort of like asking if God gets more glory in seeing us delivered out of a situation or suffering through it? It really depends, does it not? In disability, infirmity, or weakness, is Jesus visibly seen? Could...
by jtrotter1 | Nov 1, 2020 | spiritual formation
So, I am up late studying and praying after everyone has gone to sleep. I find this time to be one of the best times to reflect and listen. As some of you may know I am in a doctoral program where I am looking at those who are on the margins of society (people of...
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