When someone talks of God to you, what image comes into your mind?
Remembering, of course, that the famous Ten Commandments tell us not to visualize a picture of God.
Yet, we instinctively construct something in our mind.
Perhaps you imagine an old white guy with a long beard? Sitting on a Medieval Throne?
You’re not Caucasian? Do you imagine an old person who looks like those around you? Perhaps a female figure?
The Gospels tell us God is spirit, but how do you visualize spirit?
Since God is the ultimate Creator, I imagine God as “the supreme creative force” of the universe and beyond. I don’t picture a person but sort of a whoosh.
(And, OK, I’m weird.)
Reading the poet John O’Donohue, I see this description:
Imagine God not as a remote spirit but as wild, passionate, liberating, powerful.
It may be my Celtic ancestry. Or, I’m weird. But I find that “image” liberating.
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