Blessed are you who take time to listen to difficult speech,
For you help us to know that if we persevere, we can be understood.

Blessed are you who walk with us in public places and ignore the stares of strangers,
For in your companionship we find havens of relaxation.

Blessed are you who never bid us to ‘Hurry up’
And more blessed are you who do not snatch our tasks from our hands to do them for us,
For often we need time rather than help.

Blessed are you who stand behind us as we enter new and untried ventures,
For our failures will be outweighed by the times when we surprise ourselves and you.

Blessed are you who ask for our help,
For our greatest need is to be needed.

Blessed are you who help us with the graciousness of Christ,
Who do not bruise the reed or quench the flax,
For often we need the help we cannot ask for.

Blessed are you when by all these things you ensure that the thing that makes us individuals
is not our peculiar muscles, nor our wounded nervous system,
Nor our difficulties in learning, but in the God-given self which no infirmity can confine.

Rejoice and be exceedingly glad and that you have given us reassurance that could never be spoken in words, for you deal with us as God dealt with His own children.

-Author Unknown-