I watched the brilliant fireworks show last night from our second floor balcony. It was only 100+ degrees at 9 pm when the show began. I’m sure the estimate of crowd numbers will be 10 thousand plus. This is a big deal and lots of people show up to eat an almost warm hotdog while sitting on the hard ground in 100 degree weather listening to local bands play music over blaring sound systems. Food trucks and port-a-potties are everywhere. Then, right on time, the first big rocket is launched into the black sky and the show begins.
Professionally designed fireworks fascinate me. How in the world did someone create the patterns, the timing, the amazing displays of colors? I didn’t get any answers last night, but I got a lot of enjoyment
as boom after boom echoed through the neighborhood. At one point in the display, I thought to myself: isn’t this a remarkable commentary on the human race. No two bursting rockets were exactly alike at the moment of colorful explosion, the levels of sound varied and the patterns created in the sky were unique. And it is precisely the differences that make the final product beautiful. A variety of colors changes the show from drab and common to extraordinarily beautiful. Without the variety of colors and color combinations, one sky rocket would be just like the next one. There is purpose in our diversity. When working together, a lovely pattern is created. We need each other in order to be authentically who we were designed to be. Thank God for differences that make us unique and yet bind us together as human beings.
Shining Spirit 
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