God is infinitely greater
than our capacity for religious experience.
God is in our religious
experience. We do meet God there.
But God is vastly bigger
than our feelings.
Theologians from
Dionysius in the 6th Century
to Karl Barth in the 20th Century to John Hick
today
caution us not to limit God to what we think of
as religion or spirituality.
At those times when God
seems utterly silent, totally absent
– at those times we do not feel the least bit spiritual
and have no sense of God whatsoever --
God is there.
