One way. One of many. To remind oneself. To give oneself again a mind that may have sufficient courage and desire to step out again into pure blue space. The sky of pure optical illusion. Is to think about God as if he were a friend who has given us a call the night before and said he would be popping in to visit us today. Think of this. The God of the universe popping in today. To visit with us. The creator of. Well. Everything. A friend. Who has with him, he has said, a gift. A gift he’d like to give us today. And so.
And so what we naturally do is look for him. Watch out for him. Looking into the eyes of each person we encounter. Listen to the words of each person we come across. Look into the events as they unfold throughout the day. Looking for signs of him. Wondering what his gift today may be.
And the exercise. This discipline sometimes. It feels so. So. Hokey. So silly. So much like an exercise someone’s pastor made up. So much like a pure exercise of the imagination. Like a purely made up thing. A story we make up to place ourselves inside.
I don’t know. Sometimes I think I’m driving myself crazy with this God stuff. This God activity. Sometimes I think I’m building castles in the air. Or silly stories in the air. In pure blue air.
But then he shows up. He. I say he. Well, convention. Love shows up. Swelling like a flame. A bright, yellow-red-orange burning. Peace shows up. The entire white moon lying gently on the water. And everything. The world. The world and everything in it. The mountains. The seas. The deserts. The grasslands. The croplands. The cities. The cemetaries. The restaurants. The factories. The stores. The houses. The office buildings. The apartment buildings. The roadways. The rivers. The lakes. The people. The many, many people. Not least of all you. And me. Everything. Is changed.
Changed all through. And for a moment. For a time that only seems like the shortest possible breath of time. That is brief and at the same time extensive. Extensible. Elastic, if you will. And for this infinite moment God is with us. God is in us and around us and all through us. And we have disappeared. Into this. Into them. Into him.
