What if every single day of your life you woke up in the morning with the absolute power to make your life easier, more tolerable? Maybe even better and more enjoyable? Wouldn’t you take it?
To me, that is what God is: the daily choice to live as if. To live as if love was the deepest influence in my life, to live as if meaning was embedded in everything that happens, to live as if I have power over myself and choose to do wonderful things with it.
Many people who know me, know my commitment to human rights, know of my love for all beings, are surprised to find out about my strong relationship with Life, the Goddess, and all things Spirit. This is because they are used to a God that has taken too much airtime over the past few centuries – the bearded dude in the sky that is tracking your every move like a perv and that is not a whole lot of fun. So they can’t imagine me being close buddies with that one. And they are right, I’m not.
But I’m besties with a Life Force that is constantly hooking me up in life – which does NOT mean she’s like Santa Claus.
Folks disappointed with religion and spiritual life tell me that they can’t believe in God given the state of the world. “If God was all powerful then why is the world so messed up?” The question makes sense if you have been taught about a God that has been colonized, stratified, removed from daily life, and placed somewhere out there, separate from you, separate from your body, separate from this very ordinary Wednesday.
In my practice, there is no God “out there” without Her being in here. There is no seeking God without finding myself. There is no sin other than the ways in which I still need to surrender to Life herself and what she’s teaching me.
The witches I grew up with didn't talk about God as a concept or a comfort. They related to the Life Force the way a bruja relates to anything — through our hands, our observations, our dailyness. We didn't need the world to be fair to maintain our relationship with Spirit. We understood something that most people never get: the fuckedupness of the world doesn't mean Spirit is absent. It means we're human, on Earth, doing the very human thing of being both capable of extraordinary love and extraordinary harm at the exact same time.
I believe in free will AND destiny. I believe in the inherent goodness of people AND in our boundless capacity to hurt each other. I believe paradox is Life's actual organizing principle, and that our messy, painful, unfair lives aren't devoid of Spirit. They are Spirit, working itself out through us.
So when I say "live as if", I'm not asking you to pretend the world isn't on fire. I'm asking you to pick up your power anyway. Every morning you have a choice about what you're in relationship with. Fear, or meaning. Helplessness, or agency.
God can be as simple as that choice.
But if you're waiting for Santa Claus — all-knowing, wish-granting, making sure the good guys win — yeah, you're going to be waiting a long time. That God doesn't exist. And honestly, I think you already know that. I think that's why you're here.
Courage, truth, and infinite love,
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