Steven M. Fettke, “The Spirit of God Hovered”

I’m going to be quite honest about the beginning of this article; it showed me so much passion. You could really tell that the writer of this article must of have a personal experience with the issue of mentally and physically challenged people. I loved his position on the imago dei and how he made it in the comparison to what people called “normal” and “abnormal”. He also phrased his position on the imago dei as a challenge to all creation. It was probably the most brilliant arguments or challenges I’ve ever read or heard. If we are all created in the image of God doesn’t that mean mentally and physically challenged people fall under that category also. I always used to ask myself that same question when I seen other people with physical deformities or mentally disabled, the first thing I ask was why not me, and why did God cause this to happen? I asked many people and friends and many tell me that, all of these imperfections of human beings are caused by the sin of Adam. I could really see some truth in that because man became finite at that moment and aged and illness and infirmities corrupted the creation God intended to be perfect morally and spiritually. It does hurt sometimes to see how some people would never experience life to the fullest and do the things most “normal” people can, but it does make me think about how grateful I’m to be what society would deem as “normal”, but this article gives me and should give the church a wakeup call to answer and speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves. Isn’t that the true calling of all Christians anyway, to defend and rescue those who cannot rescue themselves that ladies and gentlemen is the message of the CROSS!!!