Hello, everyone! I pray you're all doing well, staying safe and having a blessed day. After being with a good friend, I have a thought I'd like to share with you all. But before I get into that, let me preface it by telling you all that I was born legally blind. I have optic nerve hypoplasia, which means that the optic nerve never fully developed. I see lights, colors and objects, but I see out of the sides of my eyes closest to my nose. I cannot tell what a person looks like, although I can generally tell if a person has a darker color of hair or not. However, I consider this as a blessing. Here's why. Society teaches people to discard each other if one doesn't look the best. People stereotype by way of looks, among others, of course. One of them that I see in life is that one may think that because a person like myself is blind, they must be deaf or mentally disabled as well, which is far from true. But I have a close friend who is always quick to point out whether a person looks great or if they look like an unmade bed, so to speak. She won't even go to church because she can't get in to see her beautician, and because she had shoulder surgery, she's not able to fully wash her hair, and because she is mixed, her hair might fall out if she washes it too much. But she won't go to church because her hair isn't right. I'm not at all against people using their resources to make themselves look as well as they can. However, too many times, people are discarded because they look ugly, have no teeth, have a deformed face or don't wear the right type of clothing. Friends, we have to remember that in Scripture, Jesus talks to us about being that cup that is clean on the outside but is full of bitter envy and hate and all kinds of sinful desires on the inside. Maybe if we stop putting ourselves into a category of being better than someone because they don't look as good or as clean, and maybe if we realize that the inside of our cups aren't as clean as they should be and take care of it, and we really start to judge a person by their character instead of how they look, we may get to know some wonderful people. One person my friend was putting down because of her looks happened to be a person who saw me at a bus stop in either 2012 or 2013, one of the two, and asked me where I was trying to get to. I told her I wanted to go to McDonald's to get breakfast, and that I needed to get some batteries. She ended up taking me so that I wouldn't have to wait on a bus and didn't charge me a thing. But to my friend, she's ugly. So I just wanted to encourage you to stop looking at someone by their outward appearance and start judging a person by their heart. Maybe if we can help them fix the problems they may have on the inside, they will be beautiful on the outside, too. God bless you all.