There is a God in heaven… Daniel 2:28

The novelist Katherine Mansfield, an atheist, woke up one lovely morning at her villa in the south of France, looked out her window at the beauty of it all, and said: ‘How I wish there were someone to thank!’ (There is, Katherine. And God heard you…)

When you come into contact with the God depicted in the Bible you’d better be ready for some surprises. We define reality in terms of our limited experience, and if that experience was flawed by bad relationships, ‘bad luck’ or bad life-management we may create expectations about God that are also flawed. We know only in part and see through a glass darkly. So our ‘Godtalk’ suffers from severe limitations.

The German mystic Gerhard Tersteegan wrote:

‘A god understood, a god comprehended, is no god.’ After all the words and theories, preachings and theologies, God is still incognito, and beyond our comprehension.

May the ‘Lord of all being, throned afar’ be enthroned within you. Amen.

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