THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: The Day Shay Got To Play

The Day Shay Got To Play by EJ Nolan

At a Chush fund-raising dinner, the father of one student delivered a speech that would never be forgotten by all who attended. After extolling the school and its dedicated staff, he cried out, \”Where is the perfection in my son, Shay? Everything God does is done with perfection, but my child cannot understand things as other children do. My child cannot remember facts and figures as other children do. Where is God\’s perfection?\”

The audience was shocked by the question, pained by the father\’s anguish and stilled by the piercing query. \”I believe,\” the father answered, \”that when God brings a child like this into the world, the perfection that he seeks is in the way people react to this child.\”

He then told the following story about his son Shay: One afternoon, Shay and his father walked past a park where some boys Shay knew were playing baseball. Shay asked, \”Do you think they will let me play?\”