You hear it every day. It may be a moment of joy, or maybe surprise, good or bad, or sometimes a call for help.
Firstly, who is this “God” or ours? He, or It, is invoked personally, “My God”. It would be interesting to ask everyone who says O.M.G to give their answer.
God, that thing we cannot see or touch, is a mystery. Atheists do not believe it exists, agnostics are not sure either way, believers have their own ideas.
The God of most Christian Churches is usually male; Lord, Father, Jesus. Perhaps we should stop thinking of God as a kind of superman?
God has always been portrayed in art over the centuries as a human figure; sometimes on a cloud, creating man; sometimes sorting men into good or bad and sending them to Heaven or Hell; sometimes at a door, knocking sadly in hope.
In the poem Who Has Seen The Wind?, it continues: Neither you nor I, but when the leaves hang trembling, the the wind is passing by. We can have no picture of the wind.
When we pray or speak to God, we also cannot see It/ Him, but we know that God is passing by.
To me, (and this a personal belief), God is our Creator, an unconditional love so huge we cannot comprehend it; of another dimension. It is our choice whether we engage with it.
As a passing thought, we are being bombarded with the possibilities and probabilities of A.I. Like everything else, this power can be used for good and evil. Scary.
However, to those who believe and know God, we can be sure that “no power in the sky above or in the earth below, indeed, nothing in all creation will be able to separate us from the love of God”.
O.M.G.
Paula Seddon from Wokingham Friends, writing on behalf of Churches Together in Wokingham
