by Joseph Wardy

Created on: December 10, 2009

How do you have a relationship with a God we do not see or who does not speak? You do if you are a follower of doctrine and a traditional believer in a religious belief? You do if you adhere to what the Bible preaches. But I, personally, struggle with a distant God that we pray to primarily prayers of petition. What happens if the prayers are not answered? When happens when we are besieged by a tragedy? Do we lose this relationship as we would with a person who has done us wrong.  

I have a relationship with God in a different way as this God is and in the traditional prayer of "Our Father" or in the progressive view that God is both both a female and a male. No, this is a relationship with a genderless God based on the following premise that God is life. And how is God life and where does it manifest? Let me offer four suggestions:

1) God is the Being of consciousness. God is the role model for what we can be when we strip ourselves of all forms and the identity of the ego. God represents the formlessness of egolessness.

2) God is silence and stillness. Here, we can practice these attributes through daily meditation, sitting still and solitude. Author Wayne Dyer said, " Silence is the space between the notes that make the music". It is the music of tranquility through the process of stillness and silence. God is the embodiment of non violence and stillness and silence embody that reality. Did you ever notice that all negative behavior and violence is a result of mouth or body movement.

3) God is the present moment. An anonymous writer said, "God is the breath within the breath". If God is the present moment expressed by the breath, then God is always with us and within us. Prayer may not be words but presence. Reverence may not be just going to church but going anywhere but in the present. Virtue may not be a planned activity but a process of celebrating the moment through joy, gratitude and mind-fullness.

God, expressed through life, is neutral. Consider the idea that life is not a glass that is half full or empty. The glass is as life is. Life is neutral and our spin created the negative or positive. Example: A rainy day is not negative but our complaining about is. God is the embodiment of neutrality setting the example of a life lived with purpose and meaning.

God is life and life is not my life but one with life...and God!

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