Abstract
This qualitative study explored the relationship of participants' spiritual beliefs, their response to disability, and the evangelical Christian church's influence on respondents' experiences. The author interviewed 30 persons, including 13 parents of children with mixed developmental disabilities and 9 adults with physical disabilities living in a southwestern metropolitan area in 1998. This article, part 1 of a two part series, discusses findings for the relationship of the participants' spiritual beliefs and their response to disability. Trial or difficulty contributed to spiritual challenge, the breaking of self, reliance on God, and strengthened faith. The participants' spiritual beliefs stabilized their lives in many dimensions: These provided meaning for the experience of disability, assistance with coping, and other intrapersonal, interpersonal, and societal benefits.
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