When I observe my home garden with attention, I’m amazed to see that although many leaves or many flowers of a plant look alike and conform to a similar pattern, every leaf and every flower is unique in respect of some minute detail. Every creation of God, be it stars, people or leaves, is unique! We are His children and He knows each one of us not by the names that we have, but by our unique characteristics. We are not the product of a factory assembly line but we are handcrafted by God Himself.

In India, the country where I live, a massive drive has been undertaken to assign a unique identification number to each one of its 1.2 billion people. But even that number is not considered to be a sufficient proof of identity. So every person’s fingerprints are being recorded. It’s mind-blowing to imagine that I am such a unique person that no one else in the whole world—who is living or has lived before or would be born in future—would ever possibly have the same set of fingerprints that I have! I’m unique not because I’m assigned a serial number by the government or because my parents gave me an uncommon name, but because I’m a unique creation of God. Let all creation praise Him! (Psalm 148:1-14).  —pic and copy submitted by Dr. R. R. Kelkar, India