Our problem as human beings is that we struggle to recognize the value of the diversity among ourselves.

As we explore God’s creation, we discover more about the diversity of our amazing earth and the creativity of our Maker. The very air we breathe shouts to us that God loves diversity. Composed of oxygen, nitrogen, and other “stuff,” our air blows to us in many variations, depending somewhat on our location: breezes, gales, storms, hurricanes, squalls, tornadoes, monsoons, etc. Dust devils are my favorites.

Our universe manifests differences on a grandiose scale: planets, stars, black holes, comets, and much more than my mind can grasp. Our earth is more than a smooth spinning ball; its surface is composed of mountains, rivers, oceans, ponds, plains, valleys—all decorated with trees, waves, grass, flowers, plants we call weeds—in a great variety of forms, sizes, and physicalities.

The breathing residents of our planet are not just human beings. God did not create them in one form for each class of living creatures, but rather in species and subspecies, in colors and sizes and shapes. It must have taken Adam weeks to name them all, and there were many he could not see, feel, or touch, like creatures living in the poles or microscopic creatures.

As beings created in the image of God, we are endowed with that same love of diversity. We touch our environment with a variety of colors, shapes, sizes, materials, all for distinct purposes and tastes. Mouse traps, houses, factories, launching pads and the space ships sent from them, the pyramids, the Great Wall of China, even our flavors of ice cream, all come from different imaginations, .

We are only one race of human beings. We do not require people to identify themselves by their height or their hair color, so why take sides based on ethnicity or religion?

“It is not God’s responsibility to be on our side; it’s our responsibility to be on God’s side.” (Art Clack, 12/10/25).