Posted by Helen on: 04.05.2007 /
Ken Trainor, the newspaper editor who invited me to write about not going to church anymore, wrote an editorial this week, “Professing what God is not“. I was interested to read what he himself believes about God. His editorial ends this way (which explains the title of it)
Though I don’t feel judged by this silent omnipresence, I do feel high expectations. Never disappointment, just steady, unrelenting, high expectations. Encouraging me to be more than I am now. Much, much more than I am now.
At church on Sundays, we profess a “creed,” but sometimes I think we would be better off professing an “anti-creed” because we have a better shot at stating what God is not:
God is not a promise-keeper; God does not make bad things happen to us; God does not abandon us; God is beyond imagining, but not beyond sensing; God is not violent and does not condone violence; God is not jealous; God is not vengeful; God does not require our “worship;” God is not a God of fire and brimstone.
What God is we’ll someday find out–in due time, and that will be soon enough.
In the meantime, living up to those expectations will keep us occupied.