Concept Of Inequality

However you choose to believe we were created, I can only hope that you also believe it was with good intentions. It is in this thought, and in what I believe, that I say.. God is the good in us all. Imagine how life would be if only we believed or remembered this always. In the moments we realize this to be true, we find ways to love each other and to endure the struggles together, we are willing to sacrifice our own happiness in order to provide happiness to someone else, we are willing to look past the emptiness in someone to try to remind them of this fact, and we are more willing to forgive indiscretions and those that may persecute us. 

What happens in the moments we do not realize this fact, which by the way are far too many, we do just the opposite. We find ways to continue to hate, we separate ourselves so as not to feel the other’s pain, and we do anything but sacrifice; I’d say we protect ourselves, try to enrich ourselves, and worry about our own happiness before we think about the happiness of anyone else. Even worse, we allow someone’s emptiness to fester and grow until they do unimaginable things. And in our attempt to define words based on our status in life, forgiveness comes to the few, and persecution comes to many. 

Words like inequality. Webster’s Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary defines this as “the quality of being unequal or uneven, disparity of distribution or opportunity”. I am sure the founders knew all to well mankind’s definition of inequality, as every time nations of the world forget who and what God is, they further the divide in their citizens. Hence, their attempt to build a place with the good of God in them and also governing their creation. As they say in the Declaration of Independence “We, therefore, the Representatives of the United States of America, in general Congress assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the name and by the authority of the good people of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare that these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent states”. They further declare “And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor”. 

Their attempt for a free society was to build a system of checks and balances, of separations of powers, and a system in which it’s citizens had some say and/or power in it. So, how did we get where we are? I think we got here because we completely forgot that God is the good in us all, and we have made every attempt to remove God from every public part of our lives; first and foremost our government and schools. Nations cannot control inequality. They never have been able to, and they never will be able to. And they further cannot force people to minimize it. Because, in the lack of appearance of good, we will always fight to survive. It is only when, we, individually, remember that God is the good in us all, that we will freely make the choice to bridge the gaps of inequality.

So as I go about my day today, I am going to desperately try to remember what and where God is. For when I do this, I also remember that God is in you too. Maybe one day together we will find a way to bridge our gaps. I hope you’ll do the same. Until next time, I would love to know how you feel, or what you think. If you get the desire to comment please do, we would love to hear from you.