Thinking about God…
May 5, 2011 | 
Author As part of our “God Community” series, we invited Ginger E. to think with us about God. She’s an active member of FCC Pomona and in the larger Pacific Southwest Region of the Disciples of Christ Church. Ginger was gracious enough to share with us. Here are some of her reflections…
I think about God a lot. That might be because I do serve the church and Regional church in different ways. Certainly God has a presence in my life, I can’t imagine a time when God was not a part of my daily life. God is good, God is great, God is everywhere, God knows what you do, God knows what you think, God knows what you will do before you do it. Wow, God gives me a lot to think about.
In some ways, it’s that Wizard of Oz thing, “ The all knowing, all powerful Oz!” Not behind the curtain, everywhere. I see God in the sky, the earth, the trees, and flowers. I hear God in song and voice, birds singing, voices blending. Easter morning, I heard God in a singer’s voice, a trumpets trill, the bells and organ sounding. And I saw God in the dance of a woman who interprets song in the movement of her limbs, the joyous lifting of her hands and our hearts to God.
…Wondering Questions…
I wonder, how do you think about God?
I wonder… where do you find God in your life?
Ginger, I liked hearing your views about God–especially the parts of how you hear God. One thing that I have learned from Julie is how we see God in other people. I see Him in our pastors, in the retired missionaries and ministers who share their stories, in the dedicated people who cook and wash dishes (I mean nearly every time they are there) and on… I have been thinking lately about how people show God
in issues large and small, past and present–those active in the Civil Rights movements, those helping people hurt in war and other tragedies, those who take risks in the media. So many and so brave!
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Right on! But such comments, pious and righteous as they are, do not really address the problems that arise from the theistic understanding of God. “Hearing God,” and “seeing in God,” in people are vastly different from hearing from God himself. One big problem we have is the deafening silence of God, his seeming neutrality or indifference to the horrendous evil events that happen in our time—so we now remember the 10th anniversary of 9/11, where was God when it happened; and there are the horrible wars that sprang out because of that—Iraq, Afghanistan, and now the Arab Spring. We have to take these things into account in speaking about God. I am not denying God’s existence, but these things are realities which our pious understanding of God cannot account for. We have grave problems as a people, and we call upon God to give us guidance in dealing with them—is there some theology that can give us light on how God would guide us deal with them, and empower us in doing so?