The Sand Box

The Sandbox

People have expressed that I play in a sandbox by myself, but I don’t — God sits there with me, and sometimes I have to move over and give Him more room.

The world was created to allow all to live in peace, not to fit into another person’s expression or standards of what they call their world.

Once I stood in self-righteousness, believing others needed to live the way I lived. Now I see the beauty in difference — that peace can exist even where ways diverge, and that holiness has many faces.

Allowing the differences allows people to be the expression of who they have become. Some of those differences are shocking, some are warped, some are pure, some need help, some are helpers. Some are extravagant, some are sitting alone, some choose to be that way, and some don’t care.

But all are His — and all are expected to be where He is at the end of their days.

God says, “Judge nothing before the appointed time,” so we should adhere to those words. Let every person come to the end of their life knowing who they are — not who someone else has told them to be.

1 Corinthians 12:4–6, 12:14

“There are different kinds of gifts, but the same Spirit distributes them.

There are different kinds of service, but the same Lord.

There are different kinds of working, but in all of them and in everyone it is the same God at work.

“Even so the body is not made up of one part but of many.” Each grain is unique, yet together they form a whole. When we as a people have learnt to embrace the difference we see in one another, peace will no longer be a hope — it will be a reality lived across the world.