Wrong About God.

We use our perception of God to help us try to talk about divinity in a way we can perceive. We anthropomorphize (assign human characteristics to) God in order to move such a vast and incomprehensible idea into the realm of comprehension. I don’t find it particularly helpful to talk about God as a perfected human man on a feudal throne somewhere in the cosmos. In fact, I can think of few more limiting conceptions of the essence of the universe. As someone who dares to subscribe to an all pervasive ground of being that most call God, this quote from Meister Eckhart strikes at the heart of an idea I deeply resonate with.

"God is not what you think ... or even what you believe, because God is a word unspoken, a thought unthought, a belief unbelieved. So if you wish to know this God, practice wonder, do what is good and cultivate silence ... the rest will follow."

“God” is such an inadequate word to talk about something that is beyond thought and belief. Whatever you think God is, God is more connected to the practice of wonder, the care of your fellow human, and the precious, wordless, sacred quiet that courses underneath it all. It’s there that we can find an identity that is capable of sustaining the full manifestation of who we are becoming in the world.