We live in a deep, dark corner of space on a jewel-like orb warmed and lit by a blazing star. So far as we know, we have no immediate neighbors. Yet despite our apparent isolation, we have on this rich whirling sphere everything we need to sustain ourselves.
We call our secluded home among the twinkling stars earth. It is the only home the human family, our family, has ever known. All our ancestors have lived and died here. All our history, good and bad, has been played out here.
We are composed of many nationalities or sub-families--brothers and sisters, uncles and aunts, people who long ago splintered off and went their separate ways.
We have exhibited as a family, and continue to exhibit, many destructive and dysfunctional tendencies. We are a determined group of home wreckers. On many, many occasions, even within the last century, we have gone after one another hammer and tong, killing mercilessly and laying waste to much of what we have built.
We are left to wonder why a family blessed with so much abundance and with such a lovely home would be so angry and discontented.
Perhaps it is time we reminded ourselves that God is our Father, that He created the earth, and that He has promised it to the meek.
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