Coffee with God
D August 8th, 2010
I dearly long for coffee with God.
There is this attentive blindness that we seem to have inherited from some of our religious traditions that has us convinced he is ready and willing to have conversations with us. Being as relationally driven as I am, I’ve translated that into a certain expectation with what a ‘personal relationship’ with God is. I want a conversational dialogue, the opportunity to discuss and understand what he was thinking, where he is coming from, and why we are swimming through this ocean of chaos. And to my disappointment, such a conversation is not feasible, does not exist.
But still, in my mind’s eye, I see me and God, sitting across from each other in a Starbucks, discussing existence, purpose, suffering, and the eternity of the soul. I dearly, dearly long for that conversation. And I fear it may never come.