God Is In The Details

All the ritual of Christmas cannot contain God. Not all the frenetic activity comes close to the Holy. Your every breath is a story, a narrative of God and the universe. God is real and imminent, not super-real and abstract. God is Natural, not Supernatural. If you use the word "supernatural" in your stories about God, you have already banished Him to some far distant realm, and you will find it hard to recall Him. Your narrative-rituals of praise at Christmas are dry and derivative. God is born in us continually. Our consciousness of God begins at the dawn of our lives, an eonoos - dawn mind-where everything is immediate. We lose innocence when we learn to put our experiences into code: language narratives, emotional narratives, structured and quasi-repetitive movements. It is at this time, the dawn consciousness vanishes and God - as well as many other things- are imprisoned into our newly straight-jacketed minds, never to be free again!