God Blogs

We don’t spend a lot of time thinking about heaven. Not unless we are facing death, our own or a loved one’s. We have all we can handle right now; we are not ready to let go and move on to some unknown realm beyond here, whatever it may be, if it is at all. […]

What do we desire when we desire God? The ancient philosopher Plato said God was the union of the good, the beautiful and the true – and that the only way to ascend to the realm of the holy was through desire. Plato said that when we desire God, then – and only then – […]

There is a lot of fear out there us these days, as we face a multitude of problems, from the pandemic to economic survival. It is difficult not to focus on the “what-if” or “could-be” variety of negative “possibility thinking” which our flesh is heir to. Anxiety has been defined as “living in the gap […]

Does God speak to us in dreams? According to the Scriptures of Judaism, Christianity and Islam, yes, absolutely. God or God’s representative may speak to us in sleeping dreams, and also in visions, which can happen both awake and asleep. I have known persons who reported such dreams to me. And I have been blessed […]

Pain is an essential mystery. That means, we cannot get to the bottom of the why, but only of the who, the what, the where and the when of pain. Add to that the how of pain, the dynamics of suffering. It appears that pain and suffering are built into creation. And at the same […]

The soul of religion is compassion. God is often said to be compassionate and merciful, gracious and abounding in steadfast love. Without compassion, love does not mean very much in practice. All the great world religions espouse compassion for others as essential for the practice of their respective faiths. In Hebrew, “compassion” comes from the […]