Perspective: God doesn’t edit the world’s stories just to the highlights that we notice or can remember, or classify as Important . God holds everything and everyone in mind. The Major Figures and Unifying Narratives of our representative overviews are important to God. So, too, are all the stories and people that we edit out. They all are important to God. The little society in third grade with our teacher and all our friends, what became of each of us later in life - these are as important to God as the life stories of pivotal Major Figures from history, modern cultural known and noticed by everyone. So too is everyone we know and meet, all the groups of people we’ve ever been part of, what we do together, how we love each other, how we support each other’s growth and development, how we work together to expand shalom. So are all the groups of people everywhere in the world. All are important in all the same ways. What is important is every one of us in every one of our relationships. How we love, grow, bring balance peace health good things to the people we know and those we do not know in the places we live, generation after generation after generation. That is what is important. And we each get our turn. The history of how previous generations did this is interesting, perhaps instructive. And it is our turn. Here. Now. How people somewhere else are living can be interesting, perhaps instructive. And it is our turn. Here. Now. With the people in our lives.* Each just as faboulously important as anyone else - past, present, or future, * In the current age of travel and technology some or many of the people in our lives could be many miles or time zones away.
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