The God Beams are the aspects of ordinary, everyday, reality that announce the presence of–the absolute truth of God in ways incapable of being experienced, understood, known in any other way. We know there is a God because we know of God through all these ways. These are the moments that are transparent to transcendence (Joseph Campbell):
Intuitive Realization/Inner Knowing.
Serendipity (Everything Falls Into Place, A “Propitious Accident,” A Magical Turn For The Good…)
Synchronicity (Things Coming Together At The Right Time, In The Right Place, In The Right Place).
Good Luck/Good Fortune.
Protection, Security.
Peace, Assurance, Comfort, Confidence.
Balance And Harmony.
Joy and Gladness.
Guidance and Direction.
Wisdom, Awakening, Realization, Awareness.
Etc. The Long List Of Things That Don’t/Couldn’t “Just Happen.”
And everything on the long list of God Beams stands as resplendent evidence that “Everything Happens For A Reason, and God is behind it all, because how else could God Beams be?”
Well. It could be that everything just happens for no reason at all.
What is the greatest miracle? That everything happens for a reason, or that nothing does? What are the chances that things just happen, for no reason? How miraculous is that? That nothing is behind anything? And it happens anyway, nevertheless, even so? All of the time? How miraculous is that?
The image at the top of this page was just there at the same time I was. And that is so of every image I’ve taken. What were the chances? How miraculous is that? What sense would it make to say, or think, that God arranged them all just for me?
The propensity of human beings making things up to explain for themselves what is behind everything is one of the most amazing things about us. Everybody does it. Well, almost everybody. And has done it throughout the ages. Conjuring up God, and Magic, and Astrology (Where birthdays happening when they do is the cause of everything happening as it does), etc. everywhere, from the beginning until now.
Making things up to make ourselves happy (And in control. We can control God by living in certain ways and avoiding certain other ways. Our power over God is overwhelming. We pray, and if we pray in the right way, God dances to the tune we pray) is what we do best. We are the source of all things God, and mysterious, and curious, and out of the ordinary, though they aren’t out of the ordinary at all. And who are we kidding? Only ourselves. No?
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