Where O Where is God?

Reflecting God

Thursday, January 14, 2016

We have created a terrible kind of dualism between the spiritual and the so-called non-spiritual. This dualism is precisely what Jesus came to reveal as a lie. The principle of incarnation proclaims that matter and spirit have never been separate. Jesus came to tell us that these two seemingly different worlds are and always have been one. We just couldn't see it until God put them together in his one body (see Ephesians 2:11-20). "In [Christ Jesus] you also are being built together into a dwelling place of God in the Spirit" (Ephesians 2:22).

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Where O where,

we ask,

is God

and so we seek diligently

brooding over Sacred Scripts

delving deep into mystical ritual

diligently following spiritual practices

seeking to find that

which sometimes seems as if it cannot be found

we seek to escape this horrible

common

profane

worldly existence

and find our way to Sacred

we have made it way too difficult

do you want to find Sacred?

look in  mirror

for you have God woven into your very being

into your soul

you are a Sacred child

look at the mountain before you

the stretch of the ocean

run the good earth through your fingers

(or today, where I am, the snow)

smell a flower

play with a child

snuggle with your cat

play with your dog

feel the breeze on your face

or the warmth of the sun

where is God?

everywhere

even in that face in the mirror