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Subject: Re: questions and answers
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Date: 15 May 91 18:03:24 GMT
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[This is from the Blink Talk Conference]

 I don't care if they want to pray that I will have vision.  It's a free
 country, and I can pray for whatever I want and of course I feel that
 they should have that same freedom.  What bothers me is when they want
 to make a specticle of it especially on the bus or some other place.
 It also bothers me when these weird acting people will ask you can see
 because they have been fasting and praying for you.

I had an interesting experience yesterday.  When I got off the bus, this
lady got off too and we waited together for another bus.  I was carrying
a keyboard for a computer, and from my purse, I dragged out-- that's
right-- the BNs.  I promptly put on my ear phone and began trying to
finish what I was working on.  I had a lot of time waiting for the bus,
and I was going to use it well.  Alas for such good planning.  The woman
at the bus stop had other ideas.

She wanted to talk about the keyboard.  Then she told me that she
wondered why I had that tiny little thing and was I listening to music.
I resisted the empulse to tell her that with her blabbing, all I could
hear was her.  Instead I explained that it was a little braille device
that I could store text in and then later transfer it to my computer.

She was quiet for a minute, then said that she felt that maybe she
should tell me that she watches me often and that she had taken my
blindness to the Lord and asked Him to help me.  She was sad, she said
that it looked like the Lord didn't want to heal me, but she could give
thanks that technology was available that made my life easier.
                                I thanked her for her concern.  I do see
                                her often, and thank goodness she has
                                never made a specticle on the bus.
 * EZ 1.30 *

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