A spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down.
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In the early 1960’s Disney was hard at work putting together a film adaptation of the PL Traveler’s classic, Mary Poppins.
The prolific song writing Sherman brothers were told that Julie Andrews did not like the song that they had written to be Mary Poppins’ signature tune. It doesn’t have enough snap to it she said.
Robert Sherman went home frustrated. When he got home his children told him about their day, including the fact that at school that day they had received the Polio Vaccine.
Did it hurt he asked?
“No,” his son replied “it was delicious!”
Up to that point the Polio Vaccine created by Jonas Salk was being given by a shot- however Doctor Albert Sabin had just put together an oral form of the vaccine and they had put the medicine on sugar cubes that kids gobbled up.
When Sherman heard that his children had taken this perhaps life saving medicine with a cube of sugar, he had inspiration for a new song for Mary Poppins. The next morning he and his brother wrote A Spoonful of Sugar helps the medicine go down.
As challenging as it might be to hear that they were not the children of promise, it came with more than a “spoonful” of grace.
As tough as it might be to hear any hard truth I might tell you about your sexuality, your finances, your family, your hobbies, your passions, or your plans- all of it comes with an “oceanful of grace.”