Where is God?

God doesn’t dwell on some distant cloud. God doesn’t live in the church or in the temple or within the crystals, crosses and statues that we imbue with attributes of the divine. And God doesn’t need our pleas or even our praise. To prostrate ourselves and plead for the things we want doesn’t draw them nearer to us. Beseeching a faraway God only engenders feelings of separation and alienation. It is practicing the absence, not the presence, of God.

God is right here, wherever you are. God is within you and everywhere around you. God is the love that is breathing for you, the love that is beating your heart.

Susan L. Taylor