ARE WE GOD?
Are We God? What a mammoth and delicious question!
Before we ask, Are We God? – we need to explore a little our images of God (not that they are accurate, but just to get them all out on the table). Is God a grand old man with a beard sitting on a cloud with a naughty-or-nice Santa Claus list? Does that mean only men who can grow beards qualify?
Is God a Zeus-like character with a thunderbolt who can smote us if we make the wrong turn in the road? Does God judge us? Do some beings on Earth have a more direct route to God than others? Priests and clergy wearing costumes? Do they truly have instructions as to what God is and what God desires of us and how those turns in the road should look?
Is God the creator of All That Is, a mysterious specter, a stream of flashing light, an invisible presence that encompasses everything we might imagine? Is God every molecule and breath we breathe? Is God all loving? Is God constantly creative?
Are We God? Are we any of those images just described? Or maybe, just maybe, God is better described by God's qualities. God is creativity unleashed. God is ultimate and never ending Love. God is eternal perfection. Are We God? Do we create? Yes, every thought we have, even the most minute, every feeling, goes forth invisibly and creates some kind of representation of itself in physicality and in the energy field beyond. Are We God? Yes, we are creativity unleashed.
Are We God? Do we love? Well, perhaps not unendingly but we sure can love when something touches our hearts. Have you noticed what happens when any one of us or group of us needs help? Hearts fly open and Love pours forth in all forms, from physical assistance to the highest forms of heroism. Yes, we do have the capacity to love unendingly. Perhaps we just have kind of forgotten.
Are We God? Are we eternal perfection? Well, not in our own eyes, at least not most of the time. But haven't we always been quite self-deprecating? Perhaps that is why we don't immediately answer the question, Are We God, in the affirmative. There are hints of our perfection and our God-ness in all kinds of religious and spiritual documents. Are we not made in the image and likeness of God? Did not Jesus speak of our God nature in so many ways and of the miracles we would accomplish?
Are We God? You bet your boots we are, whether (in your view) a little or a lot. Who else could reflect all the facets of our Creator as seven billion one-of-a-kind bodies? Who but God could have the imagination to create all the multifarious expressions on this planet? And who but God could bring life itself to the edge of the cliff as we have done with our Mother Earth and retrieve and redeem ourselves as we are going to do?
Are We God? Yes. But we either have to revise some of our definitions of God or change some of our behaviors. Amen, Brother!