I recently attended a college graduation ceremony. This was a large university with a graduating class of around one thousand students. As they paraded across the stage, flashing wide smiles while receiving their diplomas, their names were read off. I was struck by the diversity of the class. There were whites, blacks, Hispanics, Asians, Middle Easterners, Polynesians, Indians, young, old, male, female, pretty much every different kind of human being you could imagine.
They came from so many different backgrounds and cultures, yet when the group was officially declared graduated, they couldn’t stop hugging, high-fiving and celebrating each other. For this moment, there were no divisions, no hate, no inequality. They were bonded together by their achievement, and none of the divisive issues of our current world were going to steal their joy.
I couldn’t help but wonder if this was a glimpse at what God had in mind when he created our species.