A lady with a gentle and tender soul came in to share with my kids today. She has been a kindergarten teacher for the last twenty years and now stays home with her sweet baby boy. She is beautiful, talented, smart, and very compassionate.
She was also born without one of her eyes and had to have some other surgeries as a result of her disabilities. She shared with the children about the limitations of the eye she does have and shared about the artificial eye that was made for her. She went to a school for the blind as a child because doctors believed she would no longer have any sight by the time she became a teenager. She learned to read Braille in preparation for blindness.
I loved how she explained everything to the kids but even in the midst of the difficulties she had hope. She also had the courage to do whatever God asked her to no matter how challenging it was or even frightening. The kids were spellbound as she shared about taking her students on a field trip to Interspace Caverns when she is uncomfortable with being in the dark and has depth perception problems. Making her way through the cave was difficult. She also lead a hike through some higher elevations but she had God by her side to give her strength.
The children were told about tools someone with a visual impairment can use to help them such as a magnifying glass, a cane, and a seeing-eye dog. By the time she left she was a new friend and we all had a better understanding of what it would be like to live with a visual impairment.
"Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct your paths." Proverbs 3:5,6
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