Our America

In a time like this in America we tend to capsulate the world by what we understand about our personal culture. This book was the first time in my life I got a chance to see the world through someone else's personal culture. I read this when I was thirteen, and probably twenty times since then.
I wanted to bring this up because the ideas spawned from my perception of this book have had more of an influence on my life than anything I can remember including the Church.
Perception is reality. We are formed by the things that we cannot control. These are ideas that are foreign to the american, christian church, but vital to it understanding Christ's simplicity.
Our differences are what bind us together. The one thing that every person in the world has in common: we are all different.