Seeing God

Starting a project is often a time of diffidence, a time to have all thoughts of insufficiency, inadequacy, inability revived.

Although each Christian is asked to love and obey God, there are many different ways to accomplish this. Each person has the responsibility of finding the correct way, the way which God wants them to do his will. Each person creates many varied definitions and descriptions of God based upon modern Hollywood cinematic imaginations, classical literature, paintings and sculpture. All contain both art and beauty. All present creatively inclusive hypotheses relating to God. Science and commerce encourage the thought, the desire for solid, tangible items. It is always necessary to remember that not everything is seen, not everything is understand. Human beings exist as much by luck as by science. God's existence is not an aesthetic problem to be solved, it is a reality to provide strength, confidence, courage as needed which and to constantly, continually teach us to love. To understand the mystery of God is to understand the mystery of love.

There is a tendency to aestheticize the image of God while forgetting the work of God, forgetting that obedience and sacrifice are part of being children of God.

Discernment is often a time of diffidence as many questions are asked and many answers and solutions are suggested. The life of a Christian affords the opportunity for continual discernment, continual striving to serve God, continual attempts to become closer to God, continual desire to serve God.

Discernment helps each Christian plan a part of the journey to God but continual discernment is necessary to receive eternal salvation. Each Christian is asked to follow in the footsteps of Jesus Christ, to create a life based on Christ's social justice teachings.

There might be both difficulty and uncertainty attached to discernment. Learning to serve the Lord asks for patience, sacrifice. This is a time of mystery and exploration as we search to hear God's voice, search to see God's face.

This search can and will last a lifetime.