Someday we'll all have perfect wings . . .

Someone said something that just broke my heart today . . . they said that they didn't want people to laugh at them so they wanted to make sure that they knew what they were doing. How sad that grown men and women still have to worry about that . . . that breaks my heart - if I could just give that person - heck everyone I meet the strength to either realize that worthless people laugh at others or the strength to not care. I could see the pain that must have happened at some time in this person's life that made them afraid to try - afraid to be laughed out. How horrible that pains still linger into our adulthood that shape us always. That one comment made me think of the Mark Will's song - Don't laugh at me - that always makes me cry . . .

I'm a little boy with glasses
The one they call the geek
A little girl who never smiles
'Cause I've got braces on my teeth
And I know how it feels
To cry myself to sleep

I'm that kid on every playground
Who's always chosen last
A single teenage mother
Tryin' to overcome my past
You don't have to be my friend
But is it too much to ask

Don't laugh at me
Don't call me names
Don't get your pleasure from my pain
In God's eyes we're all the same
Someday we'll all have perfect wings
Don't laugh at me

I'm the cripple on the corner
You've passed me on the street
And I wouldn't be out here beggin'
If I had enough to eat
And don't think I don't notice
That our eyes never meet

I lost my wife and little boy when
Someone cross that yellow line
The day we laid them in the ground
Is the day I lost my mind
And right now I'm down to holdin'
This little cardboard sign...so

Don't laugh at me
Don't call me names
Don't get your pleasure from my pain
In God's eyes we're all the same
Someday we'll all have perfect wings
Don't laugh at me

I'm fat, I'm thin, I'm short, I'm tall
I'm deaf, I'm blind, hey, aren't we all

Don't laugh at me
Don't call me names
Don't get your pleasure from my pain
In God's eyes we're all the same
Someday we'll all have perfect wings
Don't laugh at me

Oh give all these people the strength to overcome this Lord. Make them believe in themselves . . . whether it be by becoming stronger in you or meeting someone who believes in them. Someone who helps them overcome their self doubt, their insecurities, their weaknesses, their pain. Let me inspire, motivate, strengthen these people. I won't laugh at them. I will cry with them, lift them up, cheer for them, support them, and laugh WITH them.