by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sometimes we meet someone who lacks the ability to do something. How do we react?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n As I write this post, I am having one of those weeks when I have the inability to do something simple. For some reason, I woke one day this week with a sore left knee. The next day, that knee was swollen and it hurt like the dickens to bend it. I could not put a sock on my left foot without tears of pain rolling down my face. Tying the shoelace on the left shoe was unthinkable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I had an inability.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Go to work. See someone hobble in on crutches, and we immediately offer to carry their cup of coffee for them. Of course we do; that is how a nice person reacts when another person has an inability. Right?<\/p>\n\n\n\n And then I see someone who cannot write the first sentence they are supposed to write. Do I immediately grab another one of their jobs so they can concentrate on that one sentence? Do I immediately offer to work around their inability? Well, uh, er…<\/p>\n\n\n\n Too often I scoff or complain or something. Would I complain if they hobbled in on crutches after a weekend auto accident? Of course not. But in this case…<\/p>\n\n\n\n We all have inabilities from time to time. I see inabilities in others. How do I react? I can do better. We all can.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" by Dwayne Phillips Sometimes we meet someone who lacks the ability to do something. How do we react? As I write this post, I am having one of those weeks when I have the inability to do something simple. For some reason, I woke one day this week with a sore left knee. The next […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[105,302,312,359,7,327,458],"tags":[219,303,313,360,130,328,459],"class_list":["post-4038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-competence","category-help","category-humility","category-injury","category-judgment","category-patience","category-thank-you","tag-competence","tag-help","tag-humility","tag-injury","tag-judgment","tag-patience","tag-thank-you"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4038"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4038\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4040,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4038\/revisions\/4040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}