God Is Either Everything of Nothing At All

Return to me again and again.  Like anything that holds mastery, one must practice, practice, practice.  Knock the rust off and begin to flex those spiritual muscles, reestablishing and maintaining your connection with the Divine.  At first, if an individual has spent little to no time in direct communion with her, they may only get a small sense of their connection or may have a feeling that there is nothing at all.  But, if they come again and again, what seemed at once impossible to reach, will bear fruitful presence as the intimacy of one’s personal relationship with her deepens.  I italicize her because truly, it is crude to anthropomorphize God as a woman or a man.  I think that’s exactly why it so rubs me the wrong way… because my God is Infinite and all-encompassing, so when I hear people refer to God as him, it makes my energy shrivel like a raisin inside of me… I have to fight not to shut down to the words that follow that reference when a peer or mentor is speaking.  I want to shout and scream STOP right there… we are talking about the same all-powerful presence of Love, Intelligence, Compassion, Care, Joy, and Grace… surely you don’t mean “he” for these belong just as much to a woman as they do to a man and, a God that doesn’t hold the motherly qualities of nurture and unending patience would not be a complete God to me…. And, surely your not shrinking God into a man for that would defer the qualities of God present in the earth as Grounding, Flow and Awesome unfathomable power that is humbling beyond belief to those who play in her storms and waves and on her rivers.  Surely the God that flows as these is not he or her but It… the unexplainable force which rushes forth as every river, every wave, every snowflake falling onto every mountain which is also God.  Yes, we pray and the intimacy of the connection makes us want to to think that we are talking to a parent for a parent knows a love for their children that is hardly comparable but it is so so so so much more than a parent…. And, yes, I have come to believe that we can ask it to remove our blocks, our fears our angers, and to direct our thinking… so, that implies that there something that listens and has the power to act.  I don’t know how it all works, but I know that it is and it does and it becomes as personal to us as we are able to believe.  If I could get one thing across about this God stuff, it would be, don’t take anyone else's word for it, save as inspiration to begin your own journey, your own relationship with the unending love, wisdom, and grace of God.  You don’t need to follow a single rule to get there or to gain favor you just need to begin.  Maybe that moment is now.  As God to reveal herself to you in his own way and in a way that you cannot miss.  See what unfolds and feel free to report back.  Much love to you on your journey today.