Poetry: God

Yes, God is everything and nothing, everywhere and nowhere. God is in us, and not in us. God just is what he is, because if he wasn't, we wouldn't be either. It is largely up to us to see God blindly, or to use his eyes to see him in us, not blindly. It's a matter, of faith, trust, belief, truth, and love, all rolled into the personage of who God is.

@innertalks

Thanks. I am glad that you liked it.

God apparently said, "I am", (or I am who I am) so he said that in the present tense. Not, "he was", or "he will be". God is, as he is always right now. Isness is a powerful truth. Things either is, or is not...lol... It is what it is. Truth is what it is too.

@DocAndersen If we can't answer yes, to the question, "Is it now?", it is not now; we are dwelling either in the past, or the future.

@innertalks To be, or not to be now that is the question. Is, i like the way you put that. Is exists without then or later.

My poem starts with just God, and ends in/with just God too. All the stuff in between are various ideas and ways of thinking about him, all neither correct, nor incorrect, because, just "God" is enough in itself; the rest is mere window dressing. So, we must choose God, have faith in God, and then God will appear to us, as we have moved ourselves into him, so to speak. God can do nothing until we take a step towards him. He does not take that step for us. So for us, God is not God, until we are Go in him, or bring ourselves to God, in God, and follow God, recognising him in our heart of hearts, and linking our faith to him. This is a poem, that shows the journey that we take, from God, away from God, then back again to God, by our finally choosing God again, with our hearts, not with various logical thoughts about him in our minds alone. God is God, and we have to come to see only that.

@Nakitakona Thanks. A poem is always open to interpretation, and asks questions, needing answers, but the answers are often hidden in them somewhere too, if we can prise them out, but like dreams, only the writer really knows what secrets or answers, he really had in mind, when he wrote it. But I am glad my further explanation helped.

@innertalks it's clearer now.

Except in the atheist's mind, but he does remain in their heart! I was trying to say that God's existence is bigger than our mind can see. God even exists in his non-existing, or before we existed to know of him too.

Yes, but this should never stop us from trying( to understand him)! God himself wants us to think about him, to love him, and to come closer to him, and to discuss things with him through our prayers. God says to us, "Ask, and your asking will be answered. Understand, and I will increase your understanding. Love, and you will be able to love more." God wants us to grow in our talents, and not to bury them under our beds.

@Shiva49 Yes, no automatic updates, unless our hearts are connected to God's heart, via the same love.

@innertalks In a way, to stay connected for updates and be ready to download them.

@Shiva49 Oneness is a great secret. Nisargadatta put it like this: "Wisdom is knowing I am nothing, Love is knowing I am everything, and between the two my life moves." : Nisargadatta Maharaj When nothing meets up with everything, oneness results from this equation. That is the story of our lives.

That's great, siva. I left that first line of yours out of my poem, but it's also a great line. I was trying to cover all bases, but I missed that one. We exist in God's existing too.

@innertalks Thanks Steve, Descartes said “I think, therefore I am”. In a similar vein, we are existing in this physical form and the creator is still at it as creation goes on in what we see and feel. Maybe, what we don't matters much more. Let us relish and revel in his love, then we are in him and close to him too with him keeping an eye even more so. Inclusiveness wins the day; oneness of humanity thrives in its diversity. “All differences in this world are of degree, and not of kind, because oneness is the secret of everything.” - Swami Vivekananda