let God

By love, God can be embraced and held, but not by thinking.

It doesn’t matter how much profound wisdom we possess about created spiritual beings; our understanding cannot help us gain knowledge about any uncreated spiritual being, who is God alone. But the failure of our understanding can help us. When we reach the end of what we know, that’s where we find God. That’s why St. Dionysius [5th/6th century] said that the best, most divine knowledge of God is that which is known by not-knowing.

                                                                                    Richard Rohr

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Bless our little concrete minds

we are soooo uncomfortable with the unknown

with that which we cannot totally define

cannot totally explain

but how do our finite minds understand the infinite

how do we explain a feeling?

or the irrepressible surge of the Sacred

in our souls?

it scares us

this vastness

this mystery

And so we try to contain it!

anyone have box?

and some tape?

So we create ideology, philosophy

and worse yet, theology

but all we manage to do is

make God small

we squeeze the Sacred into our mold

we create God, as some have said, into our own image

and all of a sudden God is about rules, and dogma

and religion replaces relationship

and certitude replaces mystery

and faith becomes striving

and inclusion becomes inclusion

and acceptance becomes judgment

We take Jesus

Word become Flesh

The one who points us toward the mystery

And we try to tame him

Jesus was wild and weird

and said things we do not understand

and walked a path we cannot truly fathom or follow

but we want to distill him

to capture him, own him

we might as well try and catch the wind (or the Spirit)

The Sacred is indeed difficult to embrace and hold

sometimes we simply have to accept

that we don’t know

we don’t understand

that for all our striving to understand,

we may be wrong

and in that moment of uncertainty

we are forced to let go of all certainty

and let God be Love