On Diversity

Count Tolstoy, the Russian writer, wrote that all happy families were happy in the same way, but all unhappy one were miserable in different ways. There was a diversity in unhappiness yet only one way to happiness.

Children are different, very true, but they love and need their mothers in the same way. If they do have it, they may be scarred in different ways. So I warn you to consider when a diversity is not the way, but the result of the wrong way. Everyone needs the right way, which, I advise you, is the spiritual way.

We are told often that all things are equal. The result is the suggestion that all things diverse are equal. That is not true. It is shallow thinking. Love is better than hate. A need is more important than a want.

No, not all values, ideas and truths are equal. There is no equal to spiritual values. What is more, there is nothing equal to Christ.

Of course we must respect and be concerned for all others, however unlike us they may be. I respect others, but that does not mean I allow myself to fooled by others. I love many, but I am not fooled by them.

I respect the materialists whose lives are devoted to chasing materialistic rainbows, wild goose chases. I respect the too liberal, the reactionaries, the half-baked and the unbaked. But I do not allow myself to be fooled by them.

I am not fooled by them, because they do not have spiritual values. I am fond of many who live unbalanced lives unfilled by grace, spiritually unaware, wildly materialistic, and a thoroughly diverse lot. I am not fooled by them because they do not live in a spiritually balanced righteous way. They have succumbed to unbridled physicality and devouring materialism.

I respect all persons as children of God, but some are fatherless spiritually, unmentored, lacking guidance, and orphans crying in the storm. As a mother loves her children, I try to love them, but I am not fooled by them. I smile. And I know. I have a quiet spiritual knowledge. You should also. I am amused by them. I chuckle but I am not taken in for a minute. Neither should you be.

We may respect and enjoy the diversity of the World, but not be fooled by externals and the antics of the spiritually immature. As spiritual adults, we may play with children, but we do not see as children.

As spiritual adults, we should tolerate diversity, may be affectionately amused by it, can learn things from it, sometimes be grateful for it, but we should not be fooled spiritually. All truths and values are not the same.