That's my child

“I believe that appreciation is a holy thing--that when we look for what's best in a person we happen to be with at the moment, we're doing what God does all the time. So in loving and appreciating our neighbor, we're participating in something sacred.”

                                                                                                    Fred Rogers

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I don’t believe God is a man

Or a Woman

I think we make a mistake, at some profound level

When we anthropomorphize God

We make God too small

God becomes something contained, limited

Rooted in time and space

God becomes mine, and not yours

God is for me, and not you

It is better to think of God as bigger

Broader

Less definable

After all, who can define infinity, really?

And yet images can be helpful

And I love the image of God a Parent

And image which gambols through the pages of the sacred texts

Not just a parent, a good parent

A doting parent

I love the idea that God

Looks upon these strange creatures called humans

And see them with the eyes of delight

Knowing the worst

But believing the best

Hoping against hope, that we will grow up

Into the divine image

But most of all I like the idea that echoing through

The darkness of failure

And the haze of uncertainty

Echoing down through the immensity of eternity

I can hear the voice of One who loves me

Saying

“Hey, that’s my kid!”

Sacred Child

I like the idea, although it torment me at times

As I am sure it does Sacred

That the same voice says the same thing

About every person who on this fine spring day

Takes a breathe

And feels their heart beat

Yes, every person

Sacred may say it with sadness in some cases

And with all the hopelessness of a parent watching a child

Make choices he or she abhors

But God says it, nonetheless

With appreciation

For what was, what is (at times)

And for what may yet be