Portrait of God

• Some do not believe in God
• Some do not believe in painting God’s portrait or carving God in marble
• God is ideas
• God is an idea that nourishes
• God is meticulous and precise and timely (in God’s own time)
• You cannot pray to God and expect very specific, personal, targeted helps
• Some pray to God and some do receive very specific, personal, targeted helps
• If each of us is a speck in the universe, our universe is a speck within the universes beyond numbers in the cusp of God’s understanding
• God is not physical
• God wears no robe or sandals
• God is a force beyond force, a power beyond power
• God created all the senses and knows how they tick
• God created every color and includes them all, all the time
• God has numberless moods, including furies and joys
• God mocks umbrellas, raincoats, rubber boots and most vanities
• Truly, God does not favor girls or boys
• God has no gender, race, faith group or political party
• God invented every gender, race, faith group and political party
• God’s memory contains and sifts all memories
• God’s knowledge contains all knowledge from every layer and grain since the beginning — every animal, vegetable, mineral
• God’s language is not tongues
• God is in sounds, flavors, sights, feelings
• God loves the smell of coffee
• Without hands or feet, God can touch and walk with us
• Cities and skyscrapers obscure God’s view
• God craves a tree, the mountains, big waters and big skies
• God cannot clearly see, and is unsure about, the future
• God lives as we live, with our noses pressed to the window of the future —searching for, wondering about, and devising plans and possibilities
o That is why we influence, in our puny ways, what might or might not happen
o That is why we are surprised by the way things turn out: God is surprised, too
• God is surprises
• (When we are surprised, God is surprised)
• God resides in dualities and extremes:
o wet and dry
o hot and cold
o feast and famine
o bliss and misery
o dark and light
o good and evil
o peace and war
o love and indifference
o birth and death
o everything and nothing
o memory and forgetfulness
o big and tiny
• God is numerical and God blesses accountants
• God is a humorist and blesses cartoonists and stand up comedians
• God pities murderers, bankers and thieves
• Contradictions that we live, God lives
• God lives in clutter and chaos
• God insists there must be discipline and order
• God tempers justice with mercy
• God knows there must be laws and that is why God forgives the honest lawyer
• God knows that enough is enough and that is why royals and the rich are unhappy
• God is not sure that the poor should always be with us and that is why he gave us governments
• Like us, God speaks of hope and dreams
• God weeps for those who suffer and; that is why we weep for those who suffer
• God believes we can do better and that is why we cling to the notion that we can do better
• God grows weary as we grow weary
• God tirelessly lifts up and tears down
• God is beyond judgments
• God is beyond opinions
• God is offended by injustice
• God regrets the sin of gossip
• God loves the young because they care for the old and the feeble
• God crushes the old and the feeble to make space for the ever-increasing young
• God will never resolve contradictions to our satisfaction
• God apologizes but the meaning is different from the meaning of our apologies
• God’s immense work is a garden that surprises God and us, blooming or failing in seasons that turn as the harvest perpetually multiplies and invents and re-invents itself
• God is aware that nothing lasts forever
• God is awake and restless
• God is silent and still
• God is never silent and still
• God is never weary
• God is a keen listener and is listening now
• God is lonely and waits for our calls and email
• God is not alone