Different Words

I’m fascinated by the idea that different people use different words to refer to the same things and the same phenomena. For example, almost everyone believes in some higher power that they think put the whole thing together, but some call it “God,” some call it “nature,” and some call it “life.” There’s any number of words that people use to describe that creative force. I think that it would be fun to examine the words that we find ourselves using, depending on where we’re coming from and our view of the world. Another example would be such words as fate, destiny, the will of God, and free will. Aren’t these really the same thing just looked at from different angles? Words can really mean the same thing and yet bring division and strife into the world because we don’t recognize that we’re really all talking about the same things and just coming at them from different viewpoints.