I've been thinking about this lately since Tabitha has been drawing family pictures. According to her pictures, I have long, thin legs, one hair, and arms growing out of the sides of my head. In the pictures, Tabitha is always small-- very, very small. When she draws the family, Edwin, the twins and I are all about the same size. Tabitha and the dog are about the same size. You can only tell them apart because Tabitha has 2 legs and the dog has 4. And Tabitha has messy hair.She is seeing what makes her different from the rest of us.
At 6 years younger than the twins, she's small, but not less than 18" tall. Her hair is messy, but it's cute. She came to me yesterday with a comb and scissors and asked me to cut her hair so it would be like Daddy's. She wants to be like everyone else in the family. But we want her to be different. It's her uniqueness that makes her special. And we love her-- not because of who or what she is, but because she's ours.
People see themselves as fat or thin, tall or short, smart or not-so-smart, good or bad, worthwhile or worthless. Wouldn't it be great if we could see that God loves us, not because of who we are or what we do, but because we are his children?
He loves us even if we have arms growing out of the sides of our heads.
3 comments:
This was cute, Patty. I love the real picture, too -- when was it taken? :) You ARE pretty special -- even with arms sticking out of the sides of your head!
This is such a relevant topic. Our television here started running makeover shows from the US (they always choose the BEST stuff to broadcast over here :-)) I am amazed at how very attractive the "to be madeover" people are. They don't usually need surgery, just "you are beautiful" therapy. Many of them just need to be told how beautiful they are.
Those shows seem to produce people that....look just like the people they produced the last time. Same nose, same body, same hair...
When we loose our uniqueness...we've lost so much.
Thanks for this Patty---so great to "meet" with you like this!
Wow, you get TV?! And that's what they're showing?! It's time to thank God for rolling blackouts, I think.
I've watched a few of those shows and you're right. The thing that always strikes me is that the person being made over is all beautiful (albeit, she looks like plastic), but her children, who are all excited for her, have her same eyes or nose or hair or lips that she just got rid of. It seems to scream-- "You're not good enough either!"
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