Who is God?

“Please, God...”

 We plead for God to intervene, even “just this once...” But I don’t think that’s how God works: the Holocaust would have been a good time to do so. No, God doesn’t stop the tyrant, or nudge the car on the icy road. God is not a Big Guy with a magic finger he deploys now and then (but not always).

 God is the Love at the heart of all being, as constant as gravity, infinitely attentive, and can’t be more present or active than right now.

 When we ask for God’s help, what we mean is to align ourselves with the great power of God’s grace already at work. Like musicians in perfect tune, we create harmonics, notes that sound though none of us is producing them. Our harmony with God creates an energy field that does indeed change things. In troubled times it takes great concentration to align ourselves with grace instead of force, with love instead of fear. We begin by allowing ourselves to be loved, along with all the rest of Creation, and then we fall into that love, and let that love flow through us into the world. I think that’s what we mean when we pray,

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How do you pray “Please, God...”

Steve Garnaas-Holmes Unfolding Light www.unfoldinglight.net, October 28, 2024

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