Diverse Yet One Blood

Is it not amazing that we love and admire the diversity the Lord gave us in fauna and flora, but get crazy in the small diversity He made in humans with only one color with varying shades. Asians have 2% more fat in their eye area causing their eyes to look different. SO for that people have hated each other.

We all breath the same, bleed the same, reproduce and die the same. We are one people who have failed to learn from one another making our world richer and living more beautiful over a few variations. That proves that only thing truly black in us is our hearts.

I am so glad that because I was an only child of the widow woman I was not fussy about who became my friend. If a kid with four arms, six eyes and purple skin and pink eyeballs.

I actually get along with people not of my shade or even place of origin than I do with folks who have more in common with me. I would love being the Ambassador to Thailand, Japan or Tonga as Asians and I get along very well. The only person I have been able to baptize was from China. Before I left Thailand the people liked me so much that they performed a good luck ritual on me and I have sat on the bench with Buddhist monks which gave me a place of honor to the people present. I could walk at night without fear because the people liked and respected me.

One of the finest Christian men I ever met was from Nigeria. I have tried to contact Adu Wodi to tell him our much I have remembered our friendship, but my mail is intercepted and I get letters from princes or generals wanting to smuggle money out of the country. I have had other good experiences with people from Africa. Not too long along ago a Kenyan said he felt a kindred spirit and invited me to come preach in his church someday. I was an Associate Pastor in a church with folks from the Philippines, India, Jamaica, Mexico, Kenya and the pastor's wife was half Native American. They did let a few of us Gringos attend as well. 😉

I had two Native American co-workers that I loved dearly. I have had wonderful young girls of Indian descent treat me like an uncle giving me a peck on the cheek when they saw me. I have performed a Quinceanera, which is not bad for a lad with a German name. I had a Jewish classmate who wanted me to take Hebrew lessons with him.

At one time, I was called an inverted Oreo because most of my co-workers were of the darker side of the brown scale and I had picked up some of the mannerisms and expressions. I have composed a Teacher Rap that I sang in classroom where there was only one darker shade of brown, but they all stood and applauded me with one lad saying, "If that's not art nothing is."

When we finally embrace our diversity. When we rise above the inconsequential of our differences we will have a far better world than we can dream of now in our foolish bigotries.

1John 4:20 If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen?

All men are my temporal brothers through the Creation. Some men are my eternal brothers through the new Creation.

Acts 17:26  And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation;