Yesterday, I was at lunch with a good friend who told me about Susan Boyle.  Boyle recently auditioned on Britain's Got Talent and this 47-year-old woman stunned the audience and the judges as she sang "I Dreamed a Dream" from Les Miserables. 

She is from the Glasgow, Scotland, area.  Notice her before she sings.  How easy it is for all of us to pre-judge someone based upon appearance.  For example, note these lines from WalesOnline:

"When Susan Boyle walked onto the stage at the Britain's Got Talent auditions, she was the complete antithesis of our image-obsessed world.  Dressed in a dodgy gold dress, with bushy eyebrows and her greying hair longing to be styled and coloured, first impressions meant we all expected her to fail miserably."

Then she sang.  Everyone was shocked.  A refreshing reminder to us all in a culture that values the outward appearance above all else.  How refreshing in a culture where people often feel "less than" because they don't wear the right jeans, don't wear the right labels, don't drive the right car, or in some way just don't measure up.  What a refreshing wake-up call.

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