Wednesday, June 19, 2024
Someone recently told me in a conversation that they wish that they spent more time with God. I have no idea what that means. It’s the word “with” that I struggle with.
I cannot relate to the notion of spending time with God. It seems like you can spend time with the “idea” of God, or the “image” of God, or even the “word” of God; but to spend time with God puzzles me. The people who say that they want to spend more time with God are the very people who would say that God is everywhere and that God is everything. But in order to spend time “with” anything, you first have to turn it into a finite object. You have to take “everything” and divide it into a piece with which to spend time.
You need the idea of two to be with anything. I can spend time with you or with a good book, but I can’t spend time with God. Most of us spend time with an idea of God, perhaps a fatherly image “out there” in the ethos looking down. It’s a lot like spending time with yourself. How can I do that when I am a singular, whole creature? With myself is a notion that divides me, the indivisible one.
There is nowhere God is not, except in those who are pretending to spend time with her. You can’t spend time with that which cannot be made or divided. With, as, or without; beginning, is, or end; alpha and omega, it’s all the same. Spend time with those ideas, and you’ll realize that the very notion of spending, God, time itself, concepts, with and without, and consciousness itself originate in you; and since you are ONE organism, you can’t spend time with yourself either. You can only be.