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Thursday, February 25, 2010

God in 100 Words or Fewer









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Over at Patheos, a few bloggers were asked to describe God in 100 words or "less" (It should be "fewer," but does God want me to nitpick about grammar in this case?  I don't know.  So I'm passive-aggressively nitpicking, just a little.) and some readers have joined in. I liked the idea and have decided to leave my own offering here. 

I do it somewhat guiltily, because as long as I've known and loved my blogger friend Velvet Verbosity, I've never actually participated in one of her 100 Word Challenges, and yet here I am participating in someone else's. In my defense, I didn't get creative with this, I merely edited down a previous post to see if I could capture my God in a word nutshell. Turns out, I can. Now if I could get this down to one clever sentence...

My God is:
An idea.
Love, beauty, kindness, compassion, truth.
Evolution; physics; the scientific method.
The Buddhist truth of impermanence and science's first law of thermodynamics (which states energy can neither be created nor destroyed): everything changes, yet continues in some new form.
The energy of life: the heart beating, the neurons firing, the breath.
The connection between all living things.
Starlight, bones and dog-earred pages.
The dark, astonishing part of me that my best words (and the best of me) come out of.
In everything, yet not fully in anything.
Always in these words and never in these words.
Posted by at 4:12 AM
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8 comments:

  1. "The dark, astonishing part of me that my best words and (the best of me) come out of."

    This is beautiful--something I've often felt but never been quite so easily able to succinctly describe. Great post.
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  2. Wow, thisis amazing and eloquent and loving...you words, the manner in which they flow and ebb from your computer to my brain...I get this and thank you for sharing your God...
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  4. I'm a Christian and I think that's how I would describe God. Thanks for sharing.
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  5. I like the idea of God being an ever present energy. I wrote about my concept of God for my second step. Thanks for sharing this.
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  6. [...] Posted by monicasteinway in Faith. trackback A blogger I follow (and have mentioned many times) Mary P. Jones responded to this challenge [...]
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  7. "The dark, astonishing part of me that my best words come out of"

    I love that, because I feel it is so true. Every now in then in COSA I will say something that just has a lasting impact, and I think "where did that come from" or "wow, I didn't know I knew that" and (this is my very spiritual side talking) it really feels like God spoke through me in that moment. yet its not something I wear on my sleeve, i keep my "god inspired self" to my self.

    I had to join in http://iloveasexaddict.wordpress.com/2010/03/04/god-in-100-words-or-less/ I love this idea
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  8. if there is a word I wouldnt understand it probably
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