Met any interesting women lately?

I watched a poignant video yesterday that struck me to the core.
Actor and Academy Award winner Dustin Hoffman was sharing the most important lesson he learned from playing the role of a woman in the comedy movie "Tootsie."

Before the movie went into production Dustin Hoffman asked the make up artists at Columbia Pictures to "make him up" into a woman. If he could walk down the streets of New York and not be looked upon as a man who was in drag then he would do the movie. He really wanted to look like a woman.

The make up artists went to work...
Sure enough, the make up artists succeeded.
Upon returning from venturing out onto the streets of New York Dustin Hoffman looked in the mirror and said to the make up artists, "You have done a great job of making me look like a woman. Now, I need you to make me look like a beautiful woman."

The reply was sobering... "This is as good as it gets."

Dustin went home and told his wife with tears running down his face, "I have to make this picture." She asked, "Why?"

Listen carefully...
"Because I think I am an interesting woman when I look at myself on the screen. And I know that if I met myself at a party I would never talk to that character because she doesn't fulfill physically the demands that we are brought up to think that women have to have in order for us to ask them out."
My wife asked, "What are you saying?"
"There are too many interesting women that I have... I have... I have not had the experience to know in this life because I have been brainwashed. That (Tootsie) was never a comedy for me."

My iWitness...

The prophet Samuel is brought to the house of Jesse to pick the new king.
Jesse brings out more than a handful of sons and Samuel is immediately drawn to the oldest, first born son. Just look at him... He's tall, he's handsome, he's strong! Yes, he is the one!

Listen carefully to the Lord's response...
“Do not look on his appearance or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him. For the Lord sees not as man sees: man looks on the outward appearance, but the Lord looks on the heart.” (1 Samuel 16. 7)

And Samuel takes a look at each succeeding son and the Lord keeps saying, "No."
Exasperated, Samuel asks Jesse, "Do you have any other sons?"

Jesse basically responds, "Oh yes... I nearly forgot... I do have one more son out in the fields tending my sheep. I'll go get him."

Upon Jesse's return with young ruddy looking shepherd boy David, Samuel is filled with God's spirit and declares, "He's the one."

David is anointed right on the spot and eventually becomes king and was ultimately declared to be a "man after God's own heart."

My hope and prayer is this...
Today and tomorrow and the next day and the next one after that...may the Lord open the eyes of our hearts not only to see, but to meet and get to know some very "interesting" people who are ultimately men and women after God's own heart.

And that's my iWitness...
Laugh often and Fear not!
David!