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What makes a person who they are? Is it their spirituality, is it their sexual orientation, is it their ethnicity, is it their disability, or whatever other condition they are diagnosed with? Everyone I know is on medication for some illness. Doctors love to diagnose what is wrong with us. Did you ever notice that we give them a jump start before we even walk into the office? Every time you go into a medical facility we have to put a checkmark next to boxes so they can classify us. The problem with this line of thinking is that the essence of a human being does not fit in the box. Please try something at this moment, draw a heart on a piece of paper. Now draw a box around the heart you just made. It doesn’t work, does it? Sure you can make it work, but you know it still doesn’t look natural.
“Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.”
Romans 12:2 NIV
According to the boxes of this world, I am a disabled, Christian, Hispanic heterosexual male. These categories all describe me correctly with one major exception, they don’t take into account how I see myself. If I don’t respect and acknowledge myself As Kevin the complete person then I cannot expect anyone else to do the same. Labels try to control us and we get so attached to them some people stop at nothing to defend them. When are we going to realize there’s more to this world? It’s something we all know, we just don’t want to accept it because our lives would become much more complicated. I know some of you out there are saying “My life is already messed up enough, I can’t afford to complicate it anymore.”
My dear friends, That is precise to the point labels are distractions not complications. Nobody is just one of these treats we are all an intersection of a thousand little things we need to step back and see the whole person. Don’t get too lost in the pieces of the puzzle you forget to look at the laptop. This world is ugly because people refuse to see the beauty in it. I hope these words helped you take a deep breath before moving on me today. May the blessings come down upon you I will see you next week.
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