Reserved parking in shopping malls, newly constructed ramps into public buildings, motorized wheelchairs, special hardware in restroom facilities, experts seen translating the spoken word into sign language for those in the television audience with hearing deficiencies, even monkeys trained to meet the everyday needs of paraplegics and quadriplegics - all are signs that we are, as a nation, becoming more sensitive to the special needs of the handicapped. Everywhere we go we are faced with reminders of thousands of people in our land who can’t take for granted what many of us often do take for granted - the ability to walk or see or hear or think or motion.

But then we don’t have to look to the nation to be reminded of these matters. In our congregations we have many handicapped people. Th…