Pastor Ron's message invites us to consider how our disabilities and special gifts may overlap so as to help us understand how God blesses us in all things. We can then "count it all blessing" and expect a blessing from what we may be tempted to reject as what threatens to hold us back.
Christians have many interpretations about what faith in Jesus Christ means in our individual lives. This can be a disability and a great gift of diversity to nurture our love and hope for the Kingdom of God in our midst in spite of our perceived differences. Pastor Ron reads and studies Greek and Hebrew as a tool to understanding, not as the Muslims study and implicitly worship the Arabic language for Koran studies. So the pursuit of linguistic interpretation may be a disability or blessed gift. It is ultimately our choice and exercise of free will with the guidance of the Holy Spirit that will help the Christian to do God's will according to His Holy Righteousness.
Stanislavski believed that acting was recollection of emotion. And many actors of stage and screen in the Western World (including those of Broadway and Hollywood) plied their trade according the his advice, "Create your own method. Don't depend slavishly on mine. Make up something that will work for you! But keep breaking traditions, I beg you."
Daniel Tammet "suffers from" Savant Syndrome according to some. He not only says that he "possesses" this condition, he has excelled beyond normal human abilities "because of it." He interprets emotions according to a number and color system. All numbers have a color up to at least 10,000 real numbers. In 2002 Daniel remembered and recounted pi to its 22,514th digit in just over 5 hours. Common media interpretation says that he has a highly developed form of autism, but he invites others into his world with entertaining and beguiling assurance. Pastor Ron's experience with autistic students at Seagull School in Fort Lauderdale, Florida and in the first Sunday School for the Disabled at the First UMC, Lakeland Florida taught him how blessings come from such disabilities. Some might say that human resourcefulness follows Stanislavski's advice. Something works for each person . . . the "disability" has already broken tradition and no one needs to beg what to do with the condition.
William Styron's book entitled Darkness Visable borrows title from John Milton's description of Hell in Paradise Lost. His book is widely circulated by psychologists and psychiatrists to family members of those suffering from clinical depression. Like Stanislavski and Tammet - Styron uses imaginative imagery to bring himself his depression, while comparing it to a "brain storm" that must eventually blow over.
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