“The lesson I want you to learn is…it doesn’t matter what you look like, you can be tall, or short or fat or thin or ugly or handsome like your father, or you can be black, or yellow, or white, it doesn’t matter.  What does matter is the size of your heart and the strength of your character.”

Might you be thinking: Nice quote.  Relevant.  Good lesson from father to son?  This was a quote from Herman Munster to his son on the Addams Family television show. I thought it to be an apropos lesson for all of us.

“Maybe Christmas, he thought…doesn’t come from a store.  Maybe Christmas perhaps…means a little bit more…the Grinch’s heart grew three sizes that day.  A big heart is the most powerful thing about you.”  Dr. Seuss

Just watched a video on Facebook from a gentleman, who said he grew up in a black neighborhood, went to black schools and college and was proud of his heritage.  In prayer one day, he heard God speak to him and God’s profound advice changed this man’s life.  He was told by God he was not black.  He, instead, was a spiritual being created in God’s own image. His life from that moment on became about seeing the “spirit” of those who crossed his path.

The greatest commandment mentioned in Mark 12: 28-33 And one of the scribes came up and heard them disputing with one another, and seeing that he answered them well, asked him, “Which commandment is the most important of all?” Jesus answered, “The most important is, ‘Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’ The second is this: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.” 

As a spiritual being, you have no color in God’s eyes and He commands you to love one another. The color of your spirit and the size of your heart matter.  Love yourself, so you can love others.  We are all spiritual beings made in God’s image (void of the specificity of colors) and our “job” is to love as unconditionally as God loves us. May your heart grow three sizes.

Jill