Allow me to talk to you about God. About your experience of God. What do you know of God that you did not get from some other source, the Bible, or a hymnbook, or from what you heard someone else say about God. What do you know of God from your own personal experience? I know that God has a twisted sense of humor. You know I am not making that up because you have never heard anyone say anything remotely similar to that about God. How do I know that about God? Personal experience. I was a minister in the Presbyterian Church U.S.A. for 40.5 years. That is hilarious. If you know me, you know that is hilarious. Tell anyone I went to school with from First Grade to a College diploma. They will laugh. Even God thinks it is funny. I know God has a twisted sense of humor by what he let me get by with in church. I owe everyone who ever knew me in the church an apology. I did not give them their money’s worth. I would do better if I had it to do over again. I would throw out the Bible, for instance. And sermons. And we would spend time in silence. A lot of silence. And we would talk about our experience of God. We would go on field trips, for instance, to visit places with special needs children, and we would talk to the children and rock the children and talk to the people who work with the children and with their parents. And we would do that a lot. And we would be being God through out those visits. We would be having an experience of God by being God. You are damn right. You would be getting your money’s worth out of me then.
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