Theology in the Grocery Aisle

Last week on a trip to the store, we had our first experience with a my children meeting a dwarf.  It's not something I had thought to prepare them for in advance and so it struck me a little unawares in a mode of reacting and recovering instead of responding.

Daughter: Mama!  That person is little and they are all on their own in the store!
Son: Yah, how come they get to walk around on their own and we don't?
Me (hushed whisper): Hands on mouths till we walk to the next aisle.
(walk in silence to the next aisle then kneel down)
Me: Y'all.  That was not a child wandering unsafely through the store.  That was a grown up.  When God made that man, he made him a special way.  It's called being a dwarf or a little person.  That means that people who are dwarves or little people only grow to a certain height.  But what does God tell us about all people?
Daughter: That they're made in God's image.
Me: That's right.  Some people are born who can't hear, or who can't see, or who are dwarves.  In the Bible, the disciples asked Jesus if a man was born because he sinned and do you know what Jesus told him?
Children: No.
Me: He told them that no one had sinned, but it was so that God could be made known.  We each have been made a specific way.  If we love God, we can use all the special things about ourselves to make God known to the world.  Not because of our sin, because we are all sinful, but because God loves us in Jesus Christ. How did he show us he loved us in Jesus?
Daughter: By sending Jesus to die on the cross for our sins.

The passage this is drawn from is John 9:1-5:

"As He passed by, He saw a man blind from birth. 2 And His disciples asked Him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he would be born blind?” 3 Jesus answered, “It was neither that this man sinned, nor his parents; but it was so that the works of God might be displayed in him. 4 We must work the works of Him who sent Me as long as it is day; night is coming when no one can work. 5 While I am in the world, I am the Light of the world.”"