My reflection on God

As this week ends and the new one begins, I’d like to share my reflections on God as male or female.

I really like this class because it challenges many ideas about Christianity that I take for granted; for example, God being male. I don’t know why I’ve never really thought to question that. As I read Daly’s and Christ’s texts, I could feel their passion from their words, and wondered why this might be so important to them. Then, I thought about whether God as male or female matters. And this is what I think: God is laughing at us. God is beyond human’s social constructs. Sometimes I wonder why God didn’t make it easy on us and just say “I am this and this, but not that.” But then we’d probably figure out a way to mess that up too. I believe that God wants God’s creation to experience God in its own way. Many have experienced God as male, like the writers of the Bible. Others experience God as the Goddess, like Christ. God made us different for a reason. There is no one right or wrong way to see God or else God would have made us exactly alike with the very same experiences. Who God is, is as diverse as the human species. The problem occurs when people try to objective their experience of God as the only one or the right one. We must look at other people’s experience of God and learn from them. Sometimes I imagine God to be strong like my father and nurturing like my mother. However, I know that these are just my own poor attempts to describe what God is to me. Of course I know that a strong God can be motherly and a nurturing God can be fatherly. The key is not to let your own experiences of God close you to new experiences of God.