ME, HONESTLY (HAVE A TISSUE HANDY)

THE DUST SETTLED INTO A CLOUD

AND SHE SLAMMED THE SCREEN DOOR.

DIRT FLEW EVERYWHERE,

BUT SHE DIDN'T CARE.

ALL SHE COULD SEE

WAS HER OWN AGONY.

WHY WAS SHE THIS WAY,

SO DIFFERENT,

SO INCONCEIVABLY GIANT?

HER SISTER WAS SMALL,

PETITE, NOT TALL AT ALL.

AND ALL THE SILLY NAMES THEY CALLED HER,

LIKE DADDY LONG LEGS,

YOU KNOW, THE SPIDER?

SHE WASN'T A SPIDER,

SHE WAS JUST HER,

A LITTLE GIRL WITH IMPOSSIBLY LONG LEGS AND BIG FEET,

AND THIS TALL AT ONLY THIRTEEN.

NO ONE ELSE IN THE ENTIRE FAMILY

WAS AS BIG AS SHE,

SO TALL SHE FELT SOMETIMES LIKE SHE WAS A TREE.

AND NO ONE WANTED TO PLAY WITH HER

BECAUSE SHE WAS SO DIFFERENT, SO TALL,

NOTHING LIKE HER SISTER OR MOTHER

WHO WERE BOTH SO SMALL.

HOW DID SHE EVER BECOME SO TALL?

ALL SHERRIE LYNN WANTED TO DO

WAS TO FIT IN.

AND THAT WAS PROBABLY NEVER GOING TO HAPPEN.

SHE WONDERED IF ANYONE KNEW HOW FRUSTRATING IT WAS TO BE SO TALL
SHE FELT LIKE A GIANT ALL THE TIME,

LIKE A BIG TREE SWAYING IN THE BREEZE.

AND WHY WAS EVERYONE ALWAYS BLAMING HER

FOR EVERYTHING THAT WENT WRONG?

ALL OF THE SHOUTING, THE CRYING,

THE SCREAMING AND THE FIGHTING.

SHE JUST WANTED TO RUN AWAY

AND HIDE FOREVER AND EVER,

FOR ETERNITY.

JUST TO GET AWAY OR FIND SOME PEACE FOR A MINUTE EVERY DAY.

AND SHE REFUSED TO FIGHT.

FIGHTING NEVER GOT ANYONE ANYWHERE.

IT JUST MADE PEOPLE SAD AND LONELY AND MEAN AND ANGRY
WHEN THEY REALLY SHOULD BE SORRY.

AND GIANTS DIDN'T HAVE TO FIGHT,

SHE THOUGHT TO HERSELF, LAUGHING AT THE THOUGHT.

SHE WASN'T REALLY A GIANT,

JUST TALL AND DIFFERENT,

WITH BIG FEET AND LONG LEGS,

AND, SHE REALIZED,

JUST THE WAY

GOD HAD MADE HER.

GALATIANS 6:9 - LET US NOT GROW WEARY IN DOING GOOD, FOR AT THE PROPER TIME WE WILL REAP A HARVEST IF WE DO NOT GIVE UP.