Finding our way to The Way one situation at a time. I don't know how great it will be, but I expect it will be interesting, and I look forward to it going on past all reason because wonder is just that way. Are you coming or not?
Think of God as being closer to our intuition than to being The Lord God Almighty Creator of Heaven and Earth. A lot closer.
God is much more like our original nature, our inherent imagination, our bodily knowing where we belong and where we have no business being, our innate virtues (the things we do best and enjoy doing most), our intrinsic intuition, our ability to resonate with some things and not with other things...
God is more internal with us than external to us. God is much more Psychic Reality than Physical Reality, and we access God through emptiness, stillness, silence (One thing, not three) more completely and more often than through the Bible, hymns and churches. The "still, small voice," and not the earthquake, wind and fire. So that if we were going to connect with God we would more likely be able to do that in emptiness, stillness and silence, in nature, with trees and waterfalls, lakes, ponds and oceans than with catechisms and books of doctrine.
We are one with God in that God is apparent and known in God's presence, goodness and truth and we sense that with our body, not with our mind or our thinking, but with our knowing in our body that God is here, now, without knowing how we know.
Belief in doctrines and dogma has no validity in comparison with the knowing that is beyond belief and believing and is self-validating and undeniable. Where does God stop and we start? That place does not exist. There is no separation, and never has been, and never will be. If we are going to believe anything, let it be that, and live as though it is so, because it is!
I'm retired, and still finding my way--but now, I don't have to pretend that I know what I'm doing.
I retired after 40.5 years as a minister in the Presbyterian Church USA, serving churches in Louisiana, Mississippi and North Carolina. I graduated from Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary, in Austin, Texas, and Northwestern State University in Natchitoches, Louisiana. My wife, Judy, and I have three daughters, five granddaughters, one great granddaughter, and a great grandson on the way, within about ten minutes from where we live--and are enjoying our retirement as much as we have ever enjoyed anything.
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