Divinity is what calls us beyond self-interest and egotism.
to the challenge of selfless sacrifice;
the way that Jesus showed us.
It is the lure of the Divine Whisper which can lead us
from the complacency of self-centred secularism
towards the pathway that Jesus pioneered.
The Spiral of Purity can then tempt us
to make an idol of our own conceptions
so taking us to radical extremes
beyond divine reality.
The power of divinity must lie in unremitting goodness
not in the instant fix of the magical miraculous.
For holy moments may be a fleeting wonder,
but holiness goes on and on.
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We develop our concept of divinity
to counter our primal fear
of ultimate unbeing;
meaninglessness.
We meet the reality of God
but God
can have no corporal existence
for the present reality of suffering and of evil
must call us to rethink of our ideas of God's nature.
If God is Love, God can not also be all powerful.
If omnipotent, God can not be loving.
We are left to wonder whether God is real.
whether God is personal, material or just an ideal?
In our ignorance we use metaphor to define divinity
and then we argue, even fight and kill,
over the differences in the detail
of our inventions.
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