Tuesday, August 19, 2025
Want to make a difference? Careful – Jesus said, “I came to drive a sword.” If you want to make differences, you make opposition, critics, and destroyers. If you want to make peace, subversively you make war first. Was Jesus successful in difference-making? He was murdered. Serves him, he should have kept his miracles to himself, and his big mouth closed. Christianity then splintered. Enough difference-making? It’s all fine. The Big Bang is to blame, the built-in “difference-maker.”
From a singularity, as science calls it, the universe exploded and splintered into unimaginable tangents, segments of itself like an inkblot, a firework, or a radiating cornucopia. Make a difference, and you’ll shatter the unity. You’ll break it up into trillions more. Do you really want to make a difference?
Go ahead. The shards of the Big Bang are threads of difference that seem to keep going, multiplying, scattering. Each human is part of that spreading effect, expanding into more multiplicity. Keep branching with all your difference-making. Drive swords upon swords, rip it up, make it veiny, thorny, and tangential. It’s an animated mosaic, self-contained and perfectly balanced. There seems to be infinite ways to split up, but fundamentally, a mosaic is one.
The universe is a closed system with a balanced checkbook. It will expand and keep fragmenting, but how else could you restore and heal, if it weren’t breaking apart? How could you heal if it weren’t broken? How could you fulfill purpose without perceived need? How could you teach without 12 followers, excluding the rest? You are a difference-maker. The fun part is All The King’s horses putting Humpty back together, while secretly and fundamentally, he ain’t broke. The mosaic scatters and moves, seemingly. Play with the pieces, but don’t forget the difference you’re making is possible by indivisible wholeness glued secretly as one, impressive work of art.