One of the comments that was made is that when you run across God in the full intensity of human experience there really is no mistaking it – but it is also a place without words. Mystics and theologians have struggled for centuries to find adequate words to express and contain everything we know about God – but yet the simple gift of experiencing God out -foxes even the cleverest expression.
And that has always been true. If you meet someone who claims to have all the answers then do not believe them. No one has all the answers and God cannot be explained academically in fact, and i am sorry to have to say this, academically God makes no sense at all. Theology is a good discipline in logic and dialectic but what it has never been able to gather into all its twists and folds is God.
Simplistic and wordy religion is popular because it seems to offer an easy path and quick answers – but what looks like rich fruit, when squeezed, turns to dust. Simple religion is something else – simple trust, simple faith, because it empties all out of self and gives everything in adoration. That is not to say it is static and unmoving. That is not to say that it does not engage in practical action and remedy – but that at its heart and as its fuel there is the still and silent soul experiencing the Divine.
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