The Spirit of God Hovered

Reading the Fettke article on “The spirit of God Hovered” gave me a better insight on how a parent of the Christian faith looks at mental disability children. I have always wondered if having a kid of mental disability would wreck the spirit of God in the parents’ lives living with the question why our child? God doesn’t like us? As I can see and also loudly stated by Fetteke I am just glad I have a son. He actually thanks God for his son that shows so much about his faith to God. If I was in the same situation I don’t know how I could handle it. Back in High school we had a mentally disabled wing with about 30 to 40 teens. I went in there a lot to hang out with one of the teachers because she was one of my mom’s friends anyways watching her with the teens was heart wrenching. Even at the time when I wasn’t a Christian I questioned why did God create this? And to think that the church community didn’t help that much with Fettke’s son shows why church today is not growing but is depleting. Some churches only care about themselves and not helping other people. I think the church lost their way being honest it shouldn’t be called a church; it should be called a business meeting. I can relate to Fettke in a since where the church didn’t want to help and then gossiped about my past. For a while I hated church because of that and I would think Fettke at the time thought the same thing. Here at SEU we had a mentally disable manger for baseball his name was AJ and the greatest time I had on that field was when he ran around the bases with the biggest smile and started to say I did it screaming I did it, I did it. My heart was heavy, My eyes were wet but I couldn’t help but to celebrate with him at home plate and all the other guys felt the same way.