{"id":3843,"date":"2013-02-28T11:19:24","date_gmt":"2013-02-28T11:19:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/fellowshipofsaintsandsinners\/?p=3843"},"modified":"2018-07-17T22:07:26","modified_gmt":"2018-07-17T22:07:26","slug":"blessed-imperfection-a-girl-learns-to-jump-and-her-mother-to-take-her-first-steps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/fellowshipofsaintsandsinners\/2013\/02\/blessed-imperfection-a-girl-learns-to-jump-and-her-mother-to-take-her-first-steps.html","title":{"rendered":"Blessed Imperfection: A Girl Learns to Jump, and Her Mother, To Take Her First Steps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The following\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/thinplaces\/2013\/02\/blessed-imperfection-a-girl-learns-to-jump-and-her-mother-to-take-her-first-steps-by-kristina-robb-dover\/#disqus_thread\">guest post<\/a> ran yesterday\u00a0on author Amy Julia Becker&#8217;s blog, &#8220;Thin Places,&#8221; as an installation in her ongoing series, &#8220;Perfectly Human.&#8221;\u00a0 The reflections materialized after an afternoon spent teaching my now three-and-a-half-year-old daughter how to jump off a one-foot step.\u00a0 (By way of an update, Sam these days loves practicing this assignment from her physical therapists, and is becoming very good at it!)<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m grateful to Becker for how she has let her own journey with a beautiful, little girl named &#8220;Penny&#8221; become both the stuff of her own transformation and manna for others, like myself, who are learning to do the same.\u00a0 My prayer this morning is for anyone who has struggled with disability of any sort and for\u00a0those who love them most.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following\u00a0guest post ran yesterday\u00a0on author Amy Julia Becker&#8217;s blog, &#8220;Thin Places,&#8221; as an installation in her ongoing series, &#8220;Perfectly Human.&#8221;\u00a0 The reflections materialized after an afternoon spent teaching my now three-and-a-half-year-old daughter how to jump off a one-foot step.\u00a0 (By way of an update, Sam these days loves practicing this assignment from her physical&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":461,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1589,122],"tags":[1534,1591,1499,1537,1590,85,363,1535],"class_list":["post-3843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-disability-2","category-theology","tag-amy-julia-becker","tag-catholic-theology","tag-church-and-disability","tag-faith-and-disability","tag-hans-von-balthasar","tag-perfectionism","tag-prayers-for-strength","tag-thin-places"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - 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