The Grinch

Someone said that it is not the outsides that matter, but the insides.  Make the inside of ourselves, our hearts, more beautiful, by how we live and love.  Now I have rather yucky outsides since my face got cut up in MOHS, but the focus, especially in this season, needs to be on fixing the insides and cutting away the nasty and unkind within.  It is the same with the Grinch in his latest movie.  He has a heart that is two sizes too small and he hates Christmas because he suffers from old loneliness wounds.  Only his dog Max knows the good that is in Mr. Grinch.  Eventually, Mr. Grinch is befriended by a little girl who does not want “stuff” for Christmas.  She wants her Mom to be happy.  The little girl is a “connector” person.  She connects to people, not things.  This is love, and it gets to the  insides of Mr. Grinch.  As his insides change, he begins to have the courage to reach out, to ring a doorbell, and be invited into the lives of others.  “Love and kindness” he says, is what we all need.  So I will try to be a more loving and kinder person with a cut up face.