Let’s Talk About God

For some time now, I have wanted to write a blog entry on God.  I have started it many times and then find my words trivial in the face of the topic and delete it.

Yet the topic of God is the most important topic for me.  Anything else we talk about, while perchance interesting, some how misses the mark for me if God is not part of the equation.

Many people assume that if I want to talk of God, then I want to talk of Religion.  No, I don’t want to talk of Religion.  For me, Religion has nothing to do with a true conversation about God.  It might be mentioned, like a footnote, but it is not in the main plot.  

So, I find the topic of God nearly impossible to write about and yet it is of dear importance to me.  

Hmmmmm. 

If I can not talk about the topic, how can I express what longs to be expressed inside of me?  

I probably can’t - exactly.

Just as the world of yards and inches cannot ever measure God.   

Just as the world of nature’s panorama can only quietly hum God’s song in the background like music in the elevator hoping you notice. 

Just as I can never give you my experience of God.

Yesterday I said to a dear friend “I have so much love for God that I can barely contain it.  I do not know how to hold this much love inside of me.”

Once again I have reached both a limit in describing as well as a limit in experiencing God.

So much love I can not contain it.

So much love I have no words to speak it.

So much love that I have no song to sing it.  

So much love that the measure of love I feel for the most dear person in my life is only a faint echo of this love.

Still, this is not God - exactly.

Regardless of my ineffectiveness in ever doing the topic justice, I feel pretty strongly that more of us here on this planet need to be talking of God.  Somehow the topic has been sidelined as not scientific or ridiculed as some how associated with a certain political stance or Religion.

This is only a diversion.  Pay no attention.  

God and science are not at odds, they are just different levels of conversations about the same thing… like snowflakes and quantum particles.  God and politics are not aligned nor at odds, this is a matter of apples and oranges.

We need to feel comfortable talking about God even if we cannot do it well.  We need to be comfortable feeling love deeply for God even if we can not do it completely.

We need to talk of God.

Today

Now

With anyone we want. 

I recognize that you may have another word for what I have been calling God.  As I said, it is difficult to talk about.  The good news is that any word generally works as well as another, Great Spirit, Creator, Source, Light, the Divine, Mystery, my Beloved, …

It’s okay if God may not be forefront for you. But I guarantee that God (what this word points to) is hiding inside you somewhere. Even for the committed Atheist. For that is apples and oranges as well.

It is time to take the “book of God”(metaphorically) off the shelf, dust it off, and open it to fresh eyes.

Call me and lets talk about God.

Or just call me to talk and I bet you I can get the conversation about God eventually (secret smile).