"Pray hard enough and with enough faith, and God/Jesus will cure you" is something that many disabled people have heard too many times from well-meaning people; and the corollary, that if you don't get magically cured you aren't good/faithful/whatever enough, is almost nauseating. But Jesus, who presumably had access to all the divine healing power he could want, chose to come back not in a perfect, whole, unflawed body, but in a form that people could relate to.

While I've heard from a lot of people regarding "I've been where you are" part of Christianity, my temporarily able-bodied privilege has, up until now, prevented me from realising this particular aspect of it. In fact, my privilege has even somewhat downplayed how serious a wound in the side, as described in the Bible, can be.

So, thank you for this post.