God

Kirby Congdon [Photo by Richard Watherwax]
Kirby Congdon [Photo by Richard Watherwax]

by Kirby Congdon…….

My readers are younger and want to be au currant. Heaven and hell are bribes or threats for them and they dismiss the two categories as uneducated and dishonest references. This still leaves us with “God” to relieve us of the inexplicable, the uncontrollable or the unbearable.

The term God is almost an expletive for joy, astonishment or grief. Like slang itself, it facilitates casual expression. We human beings do not expect references to God or to faith to apply to situations in a rational way. Our ability to reason works on another level of thought. We cope with the contemporary world through reason. We may respect the term God but we still want many questions answered with the rationale of words but the stability we seek is lost whenever we assert anything as absolute. The world we know, the culture we have, the life we live are always full of changes and interpretations.

Confirmations can be on several levels. It took aeons to make us physically and, being careful individuals, we find that it requires attention and experience to identify who this person is that bears the name we know as our own. That process is a realistic approach to almost every aspect of being alive. Yet what gives us pause is when we ask, simply, is that universe out there realistic? Its existence proves nothing but the sense of what’s real is in our own experience which, like the three dimensions, confirms our sense of depth. An umpire who is aware of this and runs it all is not an extraterrestial manager looking out for you and me; he is ourselves undergoing the experience of it all while we live.

The rest of it, somehow, continues, god knows, but, being alive, we miraculously do too. A poem may only suggest as much but that is still something. Isn’t it?

2 thoughts on “God

  1. Kirby,

    Always great stuff. Thank you.

    I am the thinker of the thought. From whence is my consciousness generated, what am I to do with it.

    This question has been pondered from time immemorial. Integrating the discoveries by those who studied this phenomena has been a wild adventure.

    As a work in progress, I yearn for those with knowledge and experience on how to proceed.

    Blessings & Respect….

  2. Kirby, Thanks for the article on a subject that never grows old, irrelevant or discardable. I am not a “believer”, but I certainly leave the door open for the existence of things beyond my understanding. The problem with “god”, I’d say at this time in our evolutionary journey, is the word itself. It has taken on such an immense amount of baggage by now that the use of the word becomes not helpful. Perhaps the whole idea of god needs a public relations remake, maybe the same people who got George W. elected … ahaha

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