Sometimes when people see people with handicaps, mental or physical, it upsets them a little. But in Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, Bob Cratchit has an interesting take on the subject. When he gets home from Christmas mass, he tells his wife Martha about Tiny Tim "He told me, coming home, that he hoped the people saw him in the church, because he was a cripple, and it might be pleasant to them to remember upon Christmas Day, who made lame beggars walk, and blind men see." He was talking about Jesus of course. But he still brings up a good point. Seeing those kinds of people might upset us at first. But maybe that is for the better. Because maybe in the long run it will actually have a positive affect in our lives.
