"Stars Upon Thars"

Whoa! Big throw back, right. I don't know why, but as soon as I read Ephesians 2:11-22 I had memories of sitting on the floor in second grade, hearing about the Sneetches and their obsession with star bellies. I sit here literally grinning from ear to ear as I remember how the Sneetches with stars upon thars were thought to be the better class of people and how those without stars on thars wanted to be just like them.

Along came a guy with a star-making machine who, for a nominal fee, would make stars on the bellies of those without. Yay, we are all equal now, cried the newly-starred Sneetches. Of course, the original star-bellied ones would have nothing of it and went to see this so-called star maker. And wouldn't you know it, he also had a machine that would remove stars. And, for a nominal fee, he removed their stars.

In a way only Dr. Seuss could we are then shown what happens when everyone wants to be like the other, and the other wants to keep what they have. Each Sneetch running through the machines at will, making, removing, making, removing, making, and removing their stars "until neither the Plain nor the Star-bellies knew whether this one was that one...or that one was this one or which one was what one...or what one was who."

After the Sneetches spent all of their money the fix-it-up guy leaves town, and the Sneetches are left bewildered and uncertain. But you know what, in the end when "they decided that Sneetches are Sneetches and no kind of Sneetch is the best on the beaches" we saw how acceptance of someone regardless of their status or skin type made all of the Sneetches happy.  The Sneetches were now one people living in one community and living in one love.

If only the Apostle Paul had Dr. Seuss to read to the church in Ephesus.


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