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“God is a verb” — one of those phrases that occurs independently to different people and then keeps showing up. Buckminster Fuller back in the 60’s, Kris Minster in a poem written “more than 30 years ago,” John Shelby Spong in a great quote: “God is not a noun, that demands to be defined. God is a verb that invites us to live, to love, and to be.” More recently, a book on the Kabbalah by Rabbi David Cooper. Where does your imagination take you when you ponder “God is a verb”?
God is a verb
Living within you and me
Fleshing our flesh
Rejoicing our joy
Crying our sorrow
And empowering us to swim upstream.
A painter’s easel stands before me as I rest quietly in a dream-like state of sleep
Prompted to express my spiritual self with color and brush strokes of my choice
I see God in
the instruments and the mechanisms that
work
reliably,
more reliably than the limited sensory departments of
the human mechanism.
