The Puzzle

All people are created equal is NOT true! Is that cruel to say? no it is factual. You see if we were all created equal we would be a miserable bunch of copycats. We would all have the same edges the same looks the same talents the same "rights" and we would not fit together at all. We would be exactly the opposite of what God wants we would be individuals instead of community. There is a common theme in my writings because I believe it to be true, God is not stupid. Quite the opposite we are stupid in His comparison that is why we have to look to Him for answers not to ourselves.

My big question is where did we find non-equality something to be hated? C.S. Lewis writes (okay I really like the guy sue me) in his "Screwtape proposes a Toast" that it is the inferior that see inequality as a bad thing. The point is that when someone compares them self to another and sees something in someone else that they WANT they scream inequality!!!! Meaning it is not fair that person has something I don't, that makes us "unequal" and that is not fair, so thus they need to give that to me so we both have it. Do you see his point it is not a matter of equal or not it is a matter of "haves" and "have nots".

Since I am stuck on themes there are several themes in the Bible that point to being content in not only what we have but who we are, seeing the usefulness in both and using it! We are not created equal that is evident, some created rich, some poor, some healthy, some sick, some strong, some weak, some "pretty" some plain, some American, some not... It is NOT in the commonalities that we find community, Christian community, it is in our differences. Equality is a joke, it is system of thinking created to take from others not to give to others. The rich do not look at the poor and say, wow they are not equal we should give half of what we have to them. The intelligent don't look at the simple and say "boy I wish they were as smart as I", The strong don't look at the weak and say let me spend all my days with them until they are as strong as I am (unless of course they are fitness instructors charging a fee, but that is not the point).

The point of all of this is the puzzle pieces fit together when you put everyone together in love, not envy. The simple minded are often spiritually strong and can offer that to the "intelligent" who at times lack spiritual strength. The strong can offer a hand to the weak, the weak can offer humility to the strong. Physically handicap are more often than not full of joyous living and that can offered to a world stuck on physical living. You see it is not in our likeness that we fit together it is in our differences our unequal parts, like a puzzle we are carved out to look different, act different, love different, feel different, but when you step back and put the pieces together AS they are they fit, they make a whole, they make community. So stop trying to make everything equal, stop trying to make it the same, and start trying to put it together in love.