The Family Resemblance

I recently watched the movie, Remember The Titans, again. I always enjoy watching this movie and each time I watch it, I glean something different from it. This time Gerry’s “Don’t you see the family resemblance” statement really caught my attention. You see Gerry has just survived an awful car accident only to learn that he is paralyzed from the waist down. The only person that he would allow to enter his hospital room was his teammate and best friend, Julius. Gerry is a big boned white guy and Julius is a lanky black guy and the nurse had scolded Julius for entering the room by saying ‘Family only”. But Gerry was acknowledging that regardless of what it looked like, Julius was his family and everybody just needed to accept it.

Sisters, I so yearn for us to embrace this family concept when it comes to each other. If we could just look beyond the skin color and realize that beneath the skin, we all have so much in common. I challenge us to identify our commonness and celebrate our differences, together, as sisters. We need each other: supporting each other, loving each other and building each other up. Together, we can inspire, motivate, inform and empower those around us and see the change we desire in our homes, families and communities.

Spread the word…Sister U Matter!®