For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ. For in the one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—Jews or Greeks, slaves or free—and we were all made to drink of one Spirit. (1Corinthians 12: 12-13)

We have been offered diverse gifts. In our origins and experiences we are different. From our different experiences we have derived varied perspectives.

We are as unique as one star is from another, or one blade of grass is from another, and in this we reflect the profound scope and range and depth of our Creator.

Still what we share is much more than what separates us. We are each of God and from each we may learn much of God. When we listen to one another, God is with us.

Above is an illumination of Jesus and the Canaanite Woman by Jean Colombe.