At a retreat that I gave in Lithuania last October for Faith and Light groups and people who wanted to start L’Arche, there was a mother who shared very movingly about her life.

When her daughter was born with a disability she saw it as a disaster. Whenever she used public transport and people would look at her and her daughter with curiosity and sometimes malevolence she at times felt that she didn’t want to live anymore. Then one day she went into a church where she saw a group of people, some of whom had disabilities, who were happy, laughing and dancing. It was a Faith and Light community. Afterwards she joined Faith and Light and what she had seen as a disaster became a blessing.

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