Blog 2900 – 10.08.2023
The Ugly Duckling
Hans Christian Anderson’s classic tale is retold and illustrated by Jan Lewis today in this First Fairy Tales version put to rhyme. Differences are not as celebrated as misunderstood, feared, and ridiculed. Parents and grandparents should begin early training their charges to not be blind to differences but to celebrate them.
It is not a hard job really for little ones are curious of differences and unafraid for the most part. Ego, the great Satan or accuser of the brethren, would have us fear anyone and everyone that does not look, think, and act just like us. But Ego, though pretending to be, is not our higher best angel or self. He/she is a liar and the father/mother of all lies. The truth will always set us free to see the highest and best in ourselves and others.
There is an ugly duck in all of us and also a beautiful swan. We each get to choose which to allow to grow and have the preeminence in our lives. The swan is graceful and stately. There is in all of us a state of grace, and the still small voice, that forever echoes, “Be not quick to judge, but slow to wrath, and forever open to love.”
Your friend and fellow traveler,
Not that different,
David White
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1GBg6hC__0z9aSHqVEWt-lIrL2-o00iV0/view?usp=drivesdk
The Ugly Duckling
Not That Different (lyric video) by: Collin Raye
theencouragingword 