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Deaf awareness week (19-25th May)/ World Hunger Day (28th May) 2014
How then shall I pray Lord?
I communicated with someone today who is deaf. I saw the hearing aid so I knew I had to shout –
as if my shouting would make him hear me, understand me, somehow.
I moved my lips in such a way that he could lip read my loud words to help him hear me, understand me, somehow.
I exaggerated my hand gestures to sign my words to him – with what little knowledge I have of that (and who knows if he could speak that language too anyway?) – to help him hear me, understand me, somehow.
How will I ever know if he did hear me, understand me? We did not engage in a conversation of two equal halves. When we parted he simply smiled. I smiled too – hoping I had made a connection and that he had heard me, understood me, somehow.
I tried Lord. I really did.
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