Quaker Spice Five - EQUALITY

As I began to try and wrap my mind around this spice we are calling “Equality” it soon became clear to me that the concept might work relatively well for cereal in cardboard boxes, commercial sweeteners or commodities subject to technically described measurement. But with regard to human beings, tangible equality doesn’t exist. As to physical stature, none of us are the equal in height and weight, and that’s true clear down to the thickness of our toenails. Intellectual ability? We don’t even know how to measure it. Giftedness? Even in the parable of the talents Jesus’ disregards equality. Matthew 25:15 says that he gave to every one according to his ability. When it comes to the circumstances of our personal pedigree, what we have inherited in the way of ancestry, cytology, character, capacity, and capital there exists no equality. Solely in the uniqueness of our creative being can declare that we are equal.