I Wonder...

I wonder...do people ever become just people, all the same? All a mess of talent and mistakes tangled up together in the same package? Is there ever a time when pretty people and the unlovely cease to be pretty or unlovely and become what they truly are, just people? Every one beautiful and unlovely in varying ways.

Why the divisions? Why the separate groupings? Will we ever get to be all together, sharing one heart and desire each in our own unique way? Yes, I can be slow, steady, practical while the child is dramatic, loud, and extravagant but together, we are perfect. When do we get to join together, without the separating according to interest, temperment, and talent? Why divide the old and young? Together we are stronger; we have more. Together we have wisdom, maturity, freshness, and vitality.

If I, a mere human, am weary of the division, how much more is He, the one who made us to be wholly together in Christ? Since girlhood I have longed for a day of together, a time when the many became one. When it no longer matters who is fat or who is thin. Who laughs, is fun, or seriously hides within.

The laughing long to be seen seriously while the quiet wish they could be heard. We are all uniquely the same. Each of us desires, craves, hurts, feels, and needs. Everyone has something hidden inside, something they wish they were brave enough to say or do. Why can't we see that? Why are we all so focused on ourselves that we miss the greater reality? The fact that will someday slap each of us in the face, people.

It's all about people. Not the clothes, the car, the house, or the job, but people. Not just the people we are comfortable with either, all people. The good, the bad, the ugly, the stinky, the nasty, the sweet, the vile, the righteous, the wicked, the good, the rich, the poor, the saint, the sinner, the lovely, the kind, the true, the liar. People, just people, real people doing real life together.

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