This clip has been making the rounds of the internet.
What makes it stand apart from the usual ‘least-likely-looking recognised as prodigious talent’ story which has come to be associated with talent shows is that this narrative tells the story of what happens when the very talented ‘ugly duckling’ is told that his not as talented partner could hold him back and that he should abandon her.
It’s his reaction that touches your heart more deeply than any note that he sings.
David Murray has some good thoughts about spiritual applications which can be drawn from this.
