The nimble joyful mystery

“I need a God who is bigger and more nimble and mysterious than what I could understand and contrive. Otherwise it can feel like I am worshipping nothing more than my own ability to understand the divine.”

Nadia Bolz-Weber, Pastrix: The Cranky, Beautiful Faith of a Sinner & Saint

"O Lord, ooh, You are so big, so absolutely huge. Gosh, we're all really impressed down here, I can tell you. Forgive us, O Lord, for this, our dreadful toadying and bare-faced flattery, but You are so strong, and, well, just so super fantastic. Amen."

                                                Monty Python, “The Meaning of Life”

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I’ve got my “God Box” ready

if I work hard enough

I can make God fit

Ok

I might have to trim God down a bit

get rid of the things I don’t like

or that make me uncomfortable

there is that love your enemies thing

and that “give away all that you have”

that too

and die to live?

really?

it is all so confusing

perhaps

I might have to live with the idea

that God might never

actually

fit in my box

and live with

the nimble

joyful

mystery