Unity

Unity. It's a word with powerful conatations and meaning. We all preach it but do we truly know what it means? What it stands for? Unity means to stand as one. To act as one. Sounds simple doesn't it?

But to achieve this we must throw aside our most deeply held differences. We have to cast off our prejudices of our ancestors. The ugly hates we all harbor toward one another silently. To look at one another on the same level when we naturally tilt our heads downward. We must cool the fiery anger we hold against a people who have wronged us. We have to quell the suspicions that well up when we look at someone different from our selves. To look past the color of our skin, the languages we speak, and the territorial claims our forefathers set is of paramount importance.

I have thought long and hard about these problems. I've tried to come up solutions, some simple most complicated. So far I have come up with only one. It's so simple it requires just a single word:

JESUS