Vol. 2, Issue 7
Comparison, Biodiversity, and Unity
Noonday Notes
Volume 2, Issue 7
June 26th, 2026
This week, the word that kept surfacing was comparison. The seed of it was planted on Saturday after visiting a very special horse farm Haven x Campise. Once again, I found myself meeting women working in agriculture that also happen to be beautiful and amazing. While driving home with low windows, loud music, and high stoke I began to cry.
In that moment I realized I’m no longer afraid of women, but I was also surprised to find myself grieving a friendship I have mostly only felt anger about. I actually missed my friend. The one who would be spending Father’s Day weekend with my family instead of me. Rejection and betrayal ended my marriage and has left me comparing myself to other women ever since. Questioning my own worth and why I wasn’t chosen. But God is undoing those lies and redeeming wounds in the soil of my heart.
I stay with my feels and go to scripture. Usually Paul. Specifically, his first letter to the folks in Corinth. A community that at the time assigned value to people based on status, identity, and gifts. Paul’s response was simple: y’all have it all wrong. Humans create hierarchies. God creates bodies.
“If the foot should say, ‘Because I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body,’ that would not make it any less a part of the body.” (1 Cor. 12:15)
And because The Message can be a fun translation, here’s some more from that letter, “I want you to think about how all this makes you more significant, not less. A body isn’t just a single part blown up into something huge. It’s all the different but similar parts arranged and functioning together.”
The garden tells the same story. How boring would it be if I grew just one crop? What makes a garden beautiful is variety. Biodiversity isn’t a problem to solve, it’s part of the design. Beauty comes from different things growing together. Plants don’t reject their design, they embrace it.
Everyone is carrying different gifts, different wounds, different stories, different forms of beauty. Nobody gets everything. Nobody escapes suffering. Nobody gets the perfect life. And yet each person bears something unique that would be lost if they spent their life trying to become someone else. If you’re a zinnia, be a zinnia.
Comparison creates competition instead of community. It uproots us from the soil we should be receiving nourishment from. But we can appreciate the gifts, beauty, and strengths of others without questioning our own worth. We create unity in the midst of diversity. How can you admire the design of others without doubting the goodness of your own?