I tend to invoke "God" quite
often in my posts. Those familiar with my thoughts might know that I use the
invocation not in a conventional or religious way but as a complex placeholder
whose dimensions have never been static but rather evolving through time for me.
The following snippet seemed to capture a part of this complexity.
"When the fraught name God comes
up in conversation or reading, I always remind myself that whatever the source
or language used, we are at root on common ground β invoking the graced, unnamable
source of life, the sacredness that cradles and infuses all of creation, on
earth and beyond. I know that prayer is the lifting of our hearts, our
thoughts, and even our bodies in conversation, or contemplation, or
remembrance, or supplication, or gratitude within this whole, requiring no
dogma, only openness. Hildegard counseled, βTo be alive is to give praise.β ~
Lyanda Lynn Haupt
posted by Sylvia D'souza at 11:09 pm
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