Different Shoes

One of the things we all bring to the table in the big room where we gather is our differences. No two of us are the same.  Not even twins.  Everyone brings to the table some distinguishing feature, some unique expression of their soul, something which says, "I am me and not you."  We were created in such a way.  It is truly an amazing moment to sit at some busy crossroad of life and sees hordes of people walking in front of us, yet nary a one the same.  

I once read a bumper sticker which said, "God don't make no junk" and it is true, but we could also use another slogan which says, "God don't make no copies."   Given the reality of our uniqueness, it is strange that we often get caught up in comparing ourselves to others, or even in modeling ourselves after someone else. Our worth or value is not determined in our becoming like someone else, but in becoming the person whom God has created us to be.  It is easy to make it through this world without a sense of being connected to a Creator God who has made us as we are to fulfill a purpose, but it is one of the foundational stones that enables us to build a life that makes sense.  Living disconnected from the Creator means that all our living is out of sync with everything else about the creation and, thus, we live without the peace that comes from being whole.  

We all live in the same world, but then again, none of us live in the same world.  We are alike, but we are different.  Each of us knows a different spot on the globe as home, each of us has a different set of relationships, each one of us has lived through and in a totally different set of circumstances, and each of us has been shaped by our life experience and the holy hand which created us.  Though we bear in common the hand print of the holy, we are all different.  None of us can walk in another's shoes, but it ok,  We each need a different size of shoes to fit where we walk.