Does God Love Us All Equally?

April 25th, 2009

The two hour time loss made it difficult to go to sleep last night and even harder to get going this morning. We are trying to take things a little bit easier today. We are trying not to rush too much.

Vega, TX seems like a sleepy little town. I really don’t know how big it is.

I just googled it.

Every time I find myself saying things like I really don’t know something, I try to stop and look it up. We do have the power if we are connected to the internet. No more excuses. The population in 2000 was just under 1000 people. I think I was right.

Most of the resident’s racial background here, according to Google, is white. I have seen people, including the young folks I talked to in the saloon last night, who had Hispanic characteristics. The people who are running this motel seem to be of Indian background. That is to say from the country of India. I am basing that on the smell of curry in the hallways and the little children of dark complexion who are running around behind the front desk.

It is hard to not make judgments about a person’s ethnicity. The darker skin and the accents in a person’s voice give us clues as to their country of origin or family background. At the same time we should be careful not to categorize these good people we meet too hastily.

In the saloon last night I heard my first racial joke about our new president. I know I have been rather isolated from that sort of thing by living in Seattle where one does not encounter that as much. It made me wince and brought me back to the reality of the world. People can be so cruel to anyone or thing that is not like them. We are so afraid of what is different from us.

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