What I believe

My god exists in the trees, in the birds, in the stars, in the sky, and all around. God is not defined in a book, by words, but exists only in feeling. There is no person who can interpret god for me but me.

God exists in the hearts and souls of everything – there is space between the particles on a subatomic level that compose each and every molecule of what we consider matter. It is my belief that god exists in the negative – what you don’t see is equally important to that which is seen.

God cannot be studied, except to look around. God cannot be dissected, except to inhale. There can be no discussion of god without the memory of the laughter of a child filling the air, because in the tiny silence between each note is God. The space where dreams, thoughts, ideas come from – that central idea of the philosophers, the ether – this is where God is.

God is not in war, in conflict, in hate, in bigotry, in zealotry, in anger. There is no room for these things in nature. Nature is inseparable from god.

In the name of god atrocities have been committed upon humanity, against nature. How can you kill a living being needlessly in the name of nature, humanity and god itself? How could that which creates and orchestrates a universe of vast galaxies, dimensions, molecules and particles only be capable of writing one book to describe it all?

If there is a plan, then it is not mine to know. If in the hearts of each of us we know when to speak, when to act, and when we are doing right – if we simply listen to our hearts and act – it is my belief that we are with god. In each moment we know, on some level, what to do. When we listen to that voice, we prevail. When we stop trusting ourselves, we stop trusting in god.

This is what I believe.