Monday, May 29, 2017
Jim Henson’s
puppet character Kermit the Frog
had a lot to say about making peace with yourself about who and what you are,
and not entering into destructive forms of selfish behavior in order to make
sense of that which troubles you.
Listen to
the green philosopher:
It's
not that easy being green;
Having to spend each day the color
of the leaves.
When I think it could be nicer being red, or yellow or gold-or something much more colorful like that.
When I think it could be nicer being red, or yellow or gold-or something much more colorful like that.
It's not
easy being green.
It seems you blend in with so many other ordinary things.
And people tend to pass you over 'cause you're not standing out like flashy sparkles in the water-or stars in the sky.
It seems you blend in with so many other ordinary things.
And people tend to pass you over 'cause you're not standing out like flashy sparkles in the water-or stars in the sky.
But
green's the color of Spring.
And green can be cool and
friendly-like.
And green can be big like the ocean, or important like a mountain, or tall like a tree.
And green can be big like the ocean, or important like a mountain, or tall like a tree.
When
green is all there is to be It could make you wonder why, but why wonder?
Why Wonder, I am green and it'll do
fine, it's beautiful!
And I think it's what I want to be.[ii]
And I think it's what I want to be.[ii]
Kermit,
figured out that he was created green (after all, he’s a frog); but what’s
more, Kermit learned to look for the beauty in what God made. And in so-doing, the frog accepted the fact
of his green-ness and
his frog-ness, and
found that he wouldn’t have it any other way.
Note the
last line of Kermit’s song:
And I think it's what I want to be.
That is one
fine frog commentary on
the Psalmist’s advice to us this morning about making peace with all that
surrounds your life. Taking delight in
the Lord is a matter of accepting everything about the way you came into this
world, including your family, where and how you were born, what you look like,
and all the other stuff that makes up the hand you were dealt…and thanking God for His wisdom in giving
you breath, life, and even the not-so-wonderful circumstances, or
overly-wonderful circumstances in which you find yourself.
What is
absolutely astounding in 100% of human existence is that once you come to terms
with that hand you’ve been dealt in life – you begin to realize that the heart
of God created you in a most magnificent way, better than anything you could
have imagined – and it has inexplicably become the desire of your heart too!
For You Today
If God
created you to be green, be the best green ever!
NOTES
I Title
image: By Dawn
Endico from Menlo Park, California (Cindy Lou Who meets Kermit the Frog), via Wikimedia
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