I was talking with a friend who also lives with MS. Kathleen told me she had a quote put on the back of her wheelchair, "This is my cross, what is yours?" She said no one had approached her yet.
I was thinking that it was a great way for people to recognize we all have our own "crosses to bear" some are more visible than others. You might see someone in a wheelchair, using a walker, cane, crutches, guide dog, sign language and so many other aids that make it seem obvious. There are so many people who have "silent crosses to bear" The young couple who are trying to have a baby, someone living with chronic pain, migraines, addiction, maybe someone just lost a child, their Mother, Father, or a close family member or friend. So much of what happens in our lives hopefully makes us stronger.
I remember reading in my friends blog awhile ago, her Mother, my friend had passed away. She was reading someone's blog someone who had lost a baby and the post brought tears to my eyes!
"It has been interesting to just go to the grocery store or be out in public knowing that all the pain I have inside is completely unknown to most people I come in contact with. There is no outward indication of what is going on in my heart. As I watch people now, I find myself wondering what they might be experiencing that goes unnoticed to everyone else. If I can feel such intense heartache and still appear to be functioning normally I wonder what all these "normal looking" people are thinking about, worrying about what burdens are weighing them down"
