How do we think of Sacred?

“Every word, every image used for God is a distortion more than a description.”

― Anthony de Mello, One Minute Wisdom

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I know of no image

Which adequately describes

Sacred Presence

otherwise known as God

We can talk about wind and fire

too impersonal

or we can image God as father

or mother

(too many of us have issues with our parents)

or as a King

which takes us into the world of

power over

or judge

leaving us with people who are in an out

blessed or cursed

loved or hated

so many ways of talking about God

do more harm than good

it is interesting that

the closest I can come to

a way of talking about

Sacred Presence

is to talk about it

as the most powerful

of all human emotions

love

love is a verby

no wonder when

a name ( in a very anthropomorphic story, sigh)

is assigned Sacred Presence

it is a verb

I am

now we have (in what we learned through Jesus)

the rest of the sentence

Sacred = “I am love”