Disability Awareness for All

4. Being Valued

4.3. Take home

Take home:

Take note of times this week when you feel especially valued, notice what it is that makes you feel that way? Perhaps you could also find time this week to show value to another person.

Prayer

Jesus, who overturned the tables in the temple forecourts,

you came to earth as a vulnerable child to turn world order upside down.

We long for you to tear down the barriers

That segregate and divide your people according to labels.

We long for you to break down the doors

that keep your people on the margins, disadvantaged in their access to the means of worship,

their access to playing their part in your church here on earth.

Shake up those who make assumptions that devalue or ‘other’ or exclude.

Grant awareness to those who are oblivious to the hurdles our buildings, our language,

our expectations put in the way of others.

Open our congregations to embrace the gifts of all, enriching our worship by ensuring that all are welcome, all belong, all have opportunity to participate fully in the way God intended for all God’s family.

Amen