re: Susan Boyle Apr 21.2009
I am overwhelmed with emotion. I have just watched
Susan Boyle on Britain’s Got Talent on You Tube. She’s the 47 yr old woman – dowdy, undiscovered from West Lothian who blew them all away with her great performance. What a singer. They were talking about her on the radio saying that so many people weep when they see the clip (I think it is the most hit you tube clip) because she represents the ordinary person who never got her day to show what she could do. Now finally she is noticed. And inside the very ordinary looking ‘nobody’, completely unglamorous person there’s a great voice. People weep because she could be all of us.
They said on the radio that ‘we all feel judged everyday’. It’s interesting to me that I heard this show about her on “As it happens” on the radio just after talking to Shari about John 16.8-11 which is part of the Bible study for tomorrow. I have always found this passage very difficult – what does it mean? Some of v 11 means that the world is wrong about judgment because we believe Satan when he accuses us of being not good enough or not worthwhile when really he’s the one who is judged/condemned. He judges us by saying that we don’t look glamorous enough. We’re not cool. Jesus says we can be ‘cool’ if we claim his protection.
What an amazing interpretation of a scripture verse.
Wow--you are right about her. I watched the clip and I was in awe of her stunning voice. It is amazing to think that God does not look us as the world does. He values us and loves us because he created us with our individual talents. The clip makes me want to develop my own talents to use them as best I can for God, since we are blessed to have been given them.
ReplyDeleteHi Katrina,
ReplyDeleteQuestion - Max keeps doing things that we never teach him. He seems to catch on to things super quick and has a huge vocabulary, counts to three, and can do puzzles he's never seen before... he is no Micah :) but I was wondering if you had any tips for developing these skills - as you've done this three times already.