Diversity In Unity

Wisdom 16:20-26

“You nourished Your people with food of angels

And furnished them bread from heaven

Ready to hand, untoiled for, endowed with

All delights and conforming to every taste,

Serving the desire of the one who received it,

Was changed to whatever flavor each one wished.”

As I live more and more intentionally in God’s Presence, that Presence penetrates my mind, heart, and soul.  We become one and my heart’s desires slowly become His desires; His plans my plans and therefore will be granted.  I find God to be a very personal God, not a one size fits all entity.  While people are basically all the same we are also all very different.

God feeds and nourishes each one according to who each one of us is.  Our conformity as humans is really conformity to our Source, not to one another.

Hence the paradox…diversity within our unity.  Until I examine each and every snowflake I will never appreciate that there are no two alike.  It is all a wonderful mystery to me; so different yet so alike.

One of the interesting facts of Story is that the personal becomes the universal.  That is why it is good to tell our personal story because we will not feel alone.  The personal becomes the universal but it never loses its uniqueness.  God is truly amazing in His creation.  I can stand alone and yet be one, together with people and with all things.