Old Reliable*

As a priest, I try to help people find a God who will not let them down, a God that they can understand is consistent in love and presence.  Love is the power of their God once they find it.  We humans will at some time or other let one another down, because we are human, not perfect nor all everything.  We will not be there for someone because we forget or get sick or overscheduled, or just get too sad and depleted to respond.  It happens.  Some people want priests to be their god, always there for them.  It ain’t gonna happen consistently.  How is this God going to help?  Well, it may reveal to us that most of the time our difficulties are of our own making, not all the time, but if we don’t cause the difficulty we make it worse by our response.  At times, we are the source of our own problems.  Meditation is taking time to be with God who won’t let them down, not a fix it God but a loving one, an accepting of ourself God.  I will take that God.  It is the one I know.