Reflection
Science has brought me face-to-face with the awareness of the overwhelming, immeasurable presence that is God. It took me to the edge of life, beyond the fairytale God. It helped me to understand that the Light was the energy from which all things come. It brought me to realize that the Cosmic Presence, the beginning and end of everything, has been consumed, dwarfed, shrunk, and reduced to magic, warring, vending, judging, and manipulating the laws of life. God, to be God, is the substance, the embrace, the whole of life. It’s out of five elements––oxygen, hydrogen, nitrogen, phosphorus and carbon––that all the elements of life come. These five elements are at the base of all life processes, in all of us, in all living things everywhere. God is within us and we are within God, the Light––God, the energy of all life, God the Creator of the universe. God within us is Light, the essence of revelation and insight. God within us is energy, the pointer toward the tomorrow that comes out of today. God within us pours out on us the reckless generation of the gifts of life.
Prayer
Who has directed the spirit of God, or instructed God as counselor?
Isaiah 40:13
Action
What is your concept of God? Do you see science reenforcing the concept of God as source of all being? Read some contemporary theology about the nature of God.
Suggested Reading
God is light, and in God is no darkness at all.
1 John 1:5
I am the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end.
Revelation 22:13
All that is good, all that is true, all that is beautiful brings us to God. Because God is good, God is beautiful, God is the truth.
Pope Francis
God is infinite. So we have to keep breaking open our categories and letting our spirits soar into the actual mystery of God.
Elizabeth Johnson
God is ever newness in love. Transcendence, therefore, is the future beyond that draws us in the present movement toward greater wholeness and unity.
Ilia Delio
The universe is an inexhaustible celebration of ultimate mystery!
Brian Swimme
We need to outgrow the small God who perhaps served us well at one time in our lives…The God who outpaces all our constructs and who unceasingly lures us to radically new places and new ways of being is the God of our great evolutionary story. This is not about inventing a new religion. It is about reappropriating the archetypal divine story that creation itself has been narrating long before we humans ever inhabited that creation. It is about realigning our perspectives and perceptions.
Diarmuid O’Murchu
Another way to think about God is as the horizon of ultimate beauty toward which you are irresistibly drawn.
John F. Haught
Only God could say what this new spirit
gradually forming within you will be.
Give Our Lord the benefit of believing
that his hand is leading you,
and accept the anxiety of feeling yourself
in suspense and incomplete.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin