A Multi-tiered Word.

We live in a multi-tiered world.  Some people live with a silver spoon in their mouths and some live with nothing at all in their mouths.  Some live midst order and some midst chaos.  Some of us live in a world where people walk and run and dance and others live in a world of wheelchairs and walkers and no legs at all.  Once in awhile, we catch a glimpse of the way some folks who are very different from us live; but, most of the time we live surrounded by people and circumstances which reflect our own status in life.  The distance between these tiers of existence often breeds an insensitivity toward the situation of others and a type of complacency that causes the drying up of our compassion.   

It is hard to understand how some can live in multi million dollar mansions filled with unused rooms and  how some find themselves setting up a tent and living alone under a busy expressway.  Regardless of where and how we live, it is important to never forget that everyone has some rocks in their shoes, some failures which cannot be shaken, and some struggles with the broken places in their lives.  What is not so obvious to us is that we are all, each and every one of us, connected to one another.  We may not be connected by ethnic background, nor economic status, nor political preference, but we are connected by the commonness which comes to all of us as we are conceived with the imprint of the holy upon us.   

We sometimes say that there is good in the worst of us.  It is true even though there are times when it is impossible to see.  The reason that there is some good in all of us has nothing to do with what we make of ourselves but because the same Creator breathed His holy breath upon us and in us.  Genesis tells us that everything and everyone created was created and declared to be very good and when Jesus walked along those Galilean roads, He met no one who was an untouchable and beyond the reach of His love.  To live faithfully as one of His is to offer the same regardless of the tier in which we, or they, live.