Dear God,
May my thoughts, my words and my actions please You today, for
today is a gift you gave me. Lord, I
give thanks, what is your prayer today?
Seeing Beyond Appearances
In
April, 2009 during the first-round competition of “Britain’s Got Talent,” a
self-admittedly “frumpy” 47-year-old woman took the stage before a panel of
judges and a live audience. As she walked to center stage, a rumbling of
comments and giggles could be heard from the audience, and the judges — who
have a reputation for critical and even caustic assessment of the contestants —
looked both amused and apprehensive.
Nothing
happened to disperse the cynicism in the air during the short interview. When
the woman announced that she wanted to be a professional singer like Elaine
Page, her words were almost drowned out by derisive laughter. But when Susan
Boyle opened her mouth and began to sing “I Dreamed a Dream” from “Les
Miserables,” the audience grew hushed, then flabbergasted, and then they were
on their feet cheering and clapping.
They had
thought they knew what to expect because they were judging Boyle based on her
appearance. When she began to sing, their expectations and their judgments were
proven to be completely wrong. Not only could she sing, but she proved herself
to be an extraordinarily talented person in a quite ordinary body.
Today
look beyond appearances, look for the good in each person you meet, the glimpse
of the divine that they have been given to share with the world.
One day when Michelangelo
was working in his studio (with his
hammer and chisel) a friend
walked into his work area, and admired his work. He said, “Michelangelo what a great gift to
be able to carve a statue from that big chunck of marble”.
Michelangelo said, “No, the
statue is already in the marble all I do is draw it out.” The same is true for each person we meet they have good
in them, good that God put in them, we have to find that good, and draw it out.
May God Be Praised!
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