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 When we say everything is
God, we must clarify. Too many placebo like experiences of God exist. There are
too many visitations that are based in us, relevant to only us and consisting
of only us. There are false prophets, true prophets gone false and false things
that come about in honesty that we must, of necessity untangle the web and
bring our hopes home.

When we say everything is
God we first mean that everything will end in God. There is a perfect symmetry
in life that things come into being and then they are gone from the scene. We look
behind the scenes and fathom that there is a transcendence that happens. We do
not just disappear.
This does not answer every
question we have. There are so many pointless tragedies and innocent deaths
that the ideas of original sin and eventual transcendence cannot speak to every
broken heart. Faith tells us that we must not only believe that God is good but
He also rewards all followers with His presence. Reward is bad word here
because it becomes competitive. There is no competition in God. All the tales
about running a race happen on an individual basis. There are no runners beside
you. And the analogy is stretched to breaking point when we realize that if
your co-runner, who does not exist on your own race track, should fall down,
you are obligated to pick him or her up to continue the race. The final picture
is a linked hand in hand family race with individuals making up the family and
not the other way around. It is not who gets there first, as the other son in
the prodigal story found out, but that we all get there. This is the father’s heartbeat.
That all connect.
We might also mean that the
origin of everything is God. That we do not truly see anything unless we see it
through Him. The world is tainted, flawed, broken and in grey. The colour is in
His eyes. Wisdom is connecting so we can first see ourselves, love others and
then act in ways that speak of another country that is built without borders and
in dimensions surpassing our present definitions of home. In this analogy, God
is home.
If we are alive in any way
at all, we often wake up in despair. The first thought before we put on the
cloak of positive thinking and induced hysteria we mistake for faith, is a
reflection of our own broken nature, dreams, appetites, systems and love. We are
in pieces. The second thought, the first act, should be prayer. We must
connect. If we do not the day seems grey. We must live in colour. We must live
in God.