If we ask, “What is God?” as opposed to “Who is God?” our deeper listening gives us a different answer.
In our language, we have reduced God to a pronoun. By doing so, we have created God in our image instead of creating ourselves in the image of God.
If we ask, “What is God?” we open to a greater awareness of the infinite. When I ask this question, I hear that God is my Source. God is that part of me that creates that which I need, not always what I want, but that which I need to fulfill that which I’ve come into this life to do. God is the Infinite Energy that infuses everything; that is everything.
God is all that has ever been and will always be. God is that part of me that is connected to everyone else. By looking beyond me, I’m able to find that spark of me that is also the essence of all others; our godselves touch. I have knowledge different than yours, experiences different from yours; I look differently than you. Yet, we touch in that place of Spirit/Source/Energy/Divine Love, that godself.
God is not a pronoun; God is not a he sitting on a throne somewhere. God is here, right here in the soap bubbles, in the ocean wave, in the music playing on the car radio, in the wind through the trees.
It is through me that God expresses life; it is through me that God knows more of life. And it is through God that I’m able to express more of life; it is through God that I know more of life.
God is in the memory of a moment in time when all was right with the world. The birth of a child. When our heart was overwhelmed with love. Our own birth when we first looked into our mother’s eyes. A walk in the woods when we turn and there is a deer looking directly at us.
This is it. This is life. This is God. This is what the saints and sages and mystics tell us. This is what life really is; this living from the godself. This is living life as a prayer.
We compartmentalize our lives, most often leaving our spiritual nature out of our everyday affairs. And in doing so, we leave God out of our lives, leave Source as a him on a hilltop to be pulled out when convenient, formed and conformed to our needs and beliefs.
We make our God too small, choking off the very resourcefulness we ask for. We deserve better and so does God.