We've had a number of conversation about God (surprisingly) over the last few years. The idea of an external supernatural being somewhere in the sky doesn't fit with a number of people's experience. None would deny God's existence but perhaps the sitting on a cloud bit could be rethought.
As part of that conversation I remember the idea that God was the action of love between people. if God is love then that act of loving someone makes God real. Indeed, like a quantum moment, it is God for that period of loving so the more we love, the more real God is in the world. That makes sense.
Tonight I found the biblical passage that illustrates that. It comes from Maggie Dawn (who will be at Greenbelt this year, again) who says: "In one of his parables Jesus said that it's in our practical relationship to other people that God is made real in the world. 'Truly I tell you, just as you did it to one of the least of these, you did it to me'. (Matthew 25:40)"
God is the action, the love. It says so in the Bible.
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