I worked as a Para-educator for many years in the school system. I was blessed to work five of those years with a child with severe cerebral palsy. He taught me many things.

When I first began with him he was in kindergarten, wheel chair bound and did not speak. During recess we would exercise in a gait trainer (basically similar to an infant walker.) He did not enjoy this chore. The teacher told me they would basically tie a rope to the walker and pull him around, hoping he would start moving...

One night I had a wondrous dream,

One set of footprints there was seen,

The footprints of my precious Lord,

But mine were not along the shore.

But then some stranger prints appeared,

And I asked the Lord, "What have we here?"

Those prints are large and round and neat,

"But Lord they are too big for feet."

"My child," He said in somber tones,

"For miles I carried you alone.

I challenged you to walk in faith,

But you refused and made me wait."

"You disobeyed, you would not grow,

The walk of faith, you woul...