Different and the Same

For over four thousand days now I have had a front porch view of  creation.  Make no mistake.  It is the same front porch.  Maybe a bit weathered from the years, but still the same porch.  It opens up to the same road, the same pasture where cows graze, the same hay fields, the same pecan trees, and the same everything.  Even though everything remains the same, everything is different.  Amazing as it might sound, not one of those four thousand plus days has presented the same view of creation.    Every day has been a gift from the Creator and everyone of them has been unique and one of a kind.     

What is true about the creation is also true of the people who are encountered each day.  Not a single one of them is the same as the other.  And while I am not the expert on twins, it is my belief that even identical twins are perceived and seen as different by those who really spend time with them.   The one thing all the different things and people have in common is the imprint of the holy creator.  Nothing which has come into being has come into being apart from the holy hands of our Creator God.  As the gospel writer John said, "All things came into being through Him..."  (John 1:3)      

When we begin to realize we live on holy ground, holy ground which is all around us, under us, behind us, and before us and when we also realize that everyone around us bears the distinctive markings of the essence of God, then we are likely to live differently in this world and among its people.  Everything is different.  Everyone is different, and yet, both everything and everyone are the same.  The common denominator is the Creator.