It’s Not Easy Being Green

Theme: It’s Not Easy Being Green

Quote: When green is all there is to be It could make you wonder why? I am green and it'll do fine. It's beautiful and I think it's what I wanna be (Kermit the Frog / Jim Henson)

My grandson, Wyatt, just finished his extended stay at our house. On the drive to return him to his refurbished home, we listened to songs we have become oh so familiar with over the past several weeks, Sesame Street’s Greatest Hits.

As I found myself singing along to ALL OF THEM and nearly being able to pronounce ABC-DEF-GHI-JKL-MNOP-QRSTUV-WXYZ (the most remarkable word Big Bird has ever seen) it was Kermit the Frog’s “It’s Not Easy Being Green” that inspired this missive.

Kermit starts the song sad about his lot in life because “HE’S A FROG, AND THAT MEANS HE IS GREEN YOU SEE!” He wonders why he isn’t “RED OR YELLOW OR GOLD OR SOMETHING MORE COLORFUL LIKE THAT.” But by the end he realizes that green is the “COLOR OF SPRING” (the season of renewal and baseball) and realizes that being green is OK.

God has a plan for each one of us. We have no idea what the totality of that plan is until we live it out. In Sunday’s Super Bowl each team had 53 roster players and they all had a role in getting their team to the game with a chance to raise the Lombardi Trophy. Plus, for each of those players there were coaches, teachers, teammates, and even rivals that all have since blended into football obscurity and like Kermit they seemingly “SPEND EACH DAY THE COLOR OF THE LEAVES.” But they inspired each of those players in some way to get to them to football’s pinnacle on Sunday night.

For someone in this world you are the right person who will come along at just the right time to make a game-changing impact on their lives. To them you will be “BIG LIKE AN OCEAN OR IMPORTANT LIKE A MOUNTAIN OR TALL LIKE A TREE.”

Have a great week!