Life itself is a gift from God.

You’re confusing the use of the gift - “consists in the ability to put one's sexuality at the service of God's people” - with the gift itself.

One of my very best friends was born with cerebral palsy. He considered that a gift from God.

"And how did Tim behave?" asked Mrs. Cratchitt... "As good as gold," said Bob, "and better. Somehow he gets thoughtful, sitting by himself so much, and thinks the strangest things you ever heard. He told me, coming home, that he hoped the people saw him in church, because he was a cripple, and it might be pleasant to them to remember, upon Christmas Day, who made lame beggars walk, and blind men see."