By Kathryn Jean Lopez, Crisis Magazine - Kristen saw firsthand how the disabled are often treated differently, how their lives are dismissed as inconvenient. She saw how her own husband, as loved as he was, spent time depressed. Without support, education and faith, he too could have succumbed to a culture — including, most perniciously, a medical culture — that communicates the lie that there is no point to living a life in which there is pain and inconvenience (as if life is ever free of such things).