God Is a Verb

We have been so conditioned to think of God as a superior being that watches over us; a real, live, sentient being that very few people have ever had the privilege of actually seeing or meeting until death comes upon us (and then you may not, depending on how you lived your life). In most people’s mind God would be a noun. If that works for you, GREAT, but for most, it is a very limiting perspective. I would like to share with you how I look at God.

From my perspective, God is a verb. God is action, the force behind all action, and is the action itself. God is the thought behind the movement, the movement itself, and the effects of the movement. God is all things and yet no one thing.

It has been said that God is the alpha and the omega; the beginning and the end, so what about between those two points? Is there no God? I know that there is, and that is the point of this post. Again, we have been conditioned to believe that God is a thing. We have been taught that this ‘thing,’ this superior being governs all of life. It is as if God is the Great Puppeteer/Orchestrator (that allows free will to happen). I thought that was a very limiting perspective of God, and in my life coaching, I see that it is very limiting for most. The main reason why I find it limiting is because for most people this keeps a form of separation between them and God. For most people, the idea of Oneness is not viable because they can not see the union between themselves and something else. For most people, they can not see the union between themselves and their neighbors, much less the homeless person or the rapist down the street. If their limited perspective does not allow them to see that, then it is rare that they are going to be able to see the union between themselves and something that is unseen.

But is God unseen? Not from my perspective. God can be seen in everything, if you would just look beyond the mind and beyond the eyes. God can be seen in a tree just as easily as it can be seen in a baby’s eyes. God can be seen in a rock just as easily as you can see it in the Grand Canyon. God is everything and yet nothing (no-thing). God is the thing inside the void and the void itself. God is action and stillness. God is music, sound and silence.

Are you beginning to get my point here? When we claim God as a thing, it is very limiting because when we say God is something (and we are only looking from our limited, human perspective), when something else comes up that is not that thing, we are ultimately saying that God is not there. I personally do not want to live thinking that God is ‘here’ and not ‘there,’ or that God is ‘over there’ and not ‘here!”

Try a little experiment with yourself. Try to see God in everything, as everything, and I bet you will begin to live life differently. I would bet that if you began to see God in everything you would begin to treat yourself, and other things with more respect, love and honor; and, isn’t that what it’s all about!

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