Hi IloveGod,
It is sad that we live in a world where people use physical attributes to determine ones value and worth as a person. We so often don't seem to understand, and I'm probably as guilty as anyone at times, that they are a person with a mind and feelings and hopes and fears just like the rest of us.
This is so blatantly obvious here in the states with other races. We place some lower value on a person who is black or chinese or mexican based solely on how they look or where they're from. I believe that God wants us to see each other as pretty much the same as we are. A black man with a family likely has the same hopes and dreams for his family as I do. He surely wants to live with the same security of his person as I do. The same freedoms to come and go pretty much anywhere that he would like to go as I do without fear of being accosted or looked at as some lower form of human life because he was born with black pigmentation in his skin. The security of knowledge that his children won't be tormented in anyway merely because he/she is a black child. His child feels the same as my child when confronted by people who hate him or denigrate him because of his physical feature of color.
However, I can't fix the problem. I can only refuse to be a part of those that act that way. It's one of the things that I so dislike in our current president. He has no problem with denigrating people based solely on their birthplace. The country where they're from. And the really sad part is that there seem to be an awfully lot of people here in the states that are just like him in that regard. He actually made me sick to my stomach when he made such a representation of the disabled reporter. Of course, he claims that he wasn't making any reference to the reporters disability in his act of throwing his arms around like some out of control monkey, but there are just so many other evidences that it would have been perfectly natural to how his heart is.
I would hope that you can rise above the judgment, but I know that it's tough. It's hard to see that others think poorly of us based on some physical condition.
God bless,
In Christ, ted