Our view of God and Gods has been been misconstrued
to see God as a remote, material figure living in a place of glory
and able, from his great power, to direct and control the world.
The Bible was written under sway and influence of ancient God-Kings.
It is an image which permeates the stories, written in Babylon
and largely about a time and place when Pharoah was God.

A person's God is not some impersonal entity
seated on a majestic throne above the clouds,
but the impulse that drives their day;
the prime-mover of thei being.
For God is Spirit

It has no corporal identity, no material existence, no form.
It dwells in and guides us but in no material way.
It has reality but not in words we can express.
In fact the description of God in words
can only be idolatry.

Yet there must be something more than us,
something above the human state of being,
just as we are above the ape, or snail,
or even inanimate, unthinking, nature.

Perhaps we can describe God as an indescribable experience,
without being able to place anything concrete on the table,
without really being any help to anyone,
but yet acknowledging God's reality,
somehow.