Judging...

You have to watch this video, unfortunately I can't embed it, so here's the link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxPZh4AnWyk

What a reaction!! Lisa Schwarzbaum, writer for US celebrity magazine Entertainment Weekly, said the performance was a powerful reality check.

She wrote: "In our pop-minded culture so slavishly obsessed with packaging - the right face, the right clothes, the right attitudes, the right Facebook posts - the unpackaged artistic power of the unstyled, un-hip, un-kissed Ms Boyle let me feel, for the duration of one blazing showstopping ballad, the meaning of human grace.

"She pierced my defences. She reordered the measure of beauty. And I had no idea until tears sprang how desperately I need that corrective."

I know that one of my character flaws is appearance. I don't pride myself on my appearance, but, for example, Susan Boyle would not be my first, or indeed 50th choice (by looking at her) for say an evangelistic outreach. I tend to go with the Hillsong philosophy of keep the good looking people at the front.

However, that video, and those words from Lisa Schwarzbaum have reminded me of God's grace, he made us all, he loves us all and he chose us all. We shouldn't dismiss people because of anything, and I more than most need to remember that.