by Marvin Double

Created on: January 08, 2008   Last Updated: June 17, 2010

When a soul questions it's existence it does so by first considering the origin of creation. It sees the world as that which God has done. To consider the works of God one must first conceive of God and in doing so one must first consider what God is. It follows that one can not consider what God had done, until one considers what God is.

The divine mystery of creation begins with the question, what is God? The basis for all belief systems is that a supreme being exists. However primitive the beliefs this is the central and primary question from which all other questions arise.

It is our nature to question and to wonder about how life came to be. For most, the fundamental acceptance that God is simply answers the question. God is that which gives meaning to all else.

We see God in the face of a newborn child, the return of spring after the fallow cold of winter. We see God in many forms and guises and in the feeling of life which pulses with each beat of our heart and with each breath we know that God is.

When we stare in the black emptiness of space, bathed in light from dim stars, too ancient and distant to imagine, we think of the hand of creation and sense that God is.

In the moments of silence between thoughts when a still voice whispers within, we sense what God is. In the bloom of a flower or the brilliant glow of sunset we are filled with a sense of what God is. In those moments we understand even without knowing, that before all else and after all is done, God is.

Learn more about this author, Marvin Double.
Click here to send this author comments or questions.