The God Complex, part 2
How can I have faith in God, and be an adult?
The first reason is, this is my experience. Synchronicities throughout my life, moving me towards growth and healing. Every hair on my head numbered? It feels that way.
Second, it is the experience of others. Forgive me, but all that New Age stuff- the Golden Light project which I am now following and which blesses me, the Law of Attraction, a Reality Computer programmed by our thoughts, is moving towards a reality which was long before found by Quakers, Sufis, Baha’is, Franciscans.
Third, I have taken to heart a paradox. There is no God. God exists. As my psychiatrist friend said, he could help most people except the ones who vomited their problems onto his consulting room floor and said “You deal with it”. My idea of God fits my idea of Reality, my adult responsibility and all, and all my life I have received unlooked-for and unimaginable Gifts (often quite painful at the time) and Blessings.
What God is- Creator, Redeemer, Sustainer, whatever- I accept as myth. I do not need to make a decision as to whether I believe in the Resurrection, for example; I am aware of the image, and I treat it with respect. It does not matter whether it happened, it only matters whether it is true.
I have faith in so many things I cannot understand, from the strange propensity of other drivers to drive on the left too, so we can all rush along at 70mph, or the amazing medical solutions to problems people I know have, the diversity of Earth and Universe, the force of Love and Life and Reality, and so I am happily Panentheist.
Oh, and I had a cliffhanger. How Doctor Who is that?
What a gift is that, to be able to articulate what we think, and what we feel about God, the nature of god. God exists, yet how we pour our experience into this, is our own delight. An apparent contradiction is the uniqueness of our spiritual insight – since that can only measured against what we uniquely understand – set against the recognition that we are all fundamentally the same. As vessels of light, we cannot be different. That is god’s message. All the best, Ann Forsyth
Thank you, Ann. My friend was expressing doubts, irritations, perceived lack of understanding, and almost incidentally as he spoke he came out with, “Some people are overflowing with grace and truth”.
Sweet, well put.
Any blog which mentions ” Dr. Who “. gets a positive comment.
There is indeed a shortage of grown-ups n the world. Nice to hear from another.
Kind Regards, dn