Just when almost all of the snow had gone comes another short dusting of the stuff. We all hold our breath and fortunately matters don't go beyond that one evening's threat. I take comfort that the days get longer from now on, even though de facto it means nothing. We are a long way away from proper sunny days and natural warmth. Bit of psychological comfort after the coldest December in Britain in a 120 years, I guess. I fell as settled as a newcomer can be in a community and things have been more or less steady. I have no strict goal posts apart from seeing the next month or two through in quiet reflection.
So I think of God etc.
What is God?
Who is He really?
Google throws up more than 480 million entries to the word God. A widely used word then but little understood among most of us who would position themselves as 'mainstream', 'atheists', 'humanists' or 'agnostics'. I have been at least one, some or most of these most of my life. I know little of God but I can assure you, not for any lack of wanting to know. Quite the opposite really. I had a natural quest of God like most others, it freely followed from the missing piece of the enormous puzzle that sat irritatingly at the back of my mind since I was rather young. What was beyond the line of palm trees in the deep,dark distance that my child's eye couldn't fathom? And beyond the planets, galaxies etc.? You know that one? I think most, if not all of us do move with that unfinished puzzle as we grow older, not been able to quite find it as we graze the pastures of Theology, Philosophy, Science or Churches in the process. Some find it (bastards), most don't.
The problem is God remains mysteriously absent from those 480 million sea of suggestions. At least to me anyway. Google takes me through the proverbial Wikipedia to a plethora of information ranging from visionaries from Indiana and Wisconsin flogging books and DVD's to the usual banjo playing of the doolally evangelism of the American Bible belt to even a brothel which has mischievously meta tagged its way in there somehow.
Okay, so, in His absence lies the enigma, I see. I am comforted that He remains unavailable through Google and the clever whorehouse. He ought to be bigger and better than that. Yes, I gently stroke the comforting irony.
Will post more in a day or two.....
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