Flavors

Think of the search for God, compared to the search for ice cream.  Ice cream comes in flavors.  You cannot get just “ice cream.”  No ice cream store or market will offer anything but a flavor.  Well, houses of worship or religions can get caught in the same thing for anyone who is searching for “God” beyond flavors.  Each one says, “We have God.”  But what they might have is only a flavor of God, and they think their flavor is the only one.  What if institutions really offer flavors?  I believe that meditation is necessary so as not to stay on the level of flavor.  Give a young person a way, a path but later let them know it is a path that can only go so far without deep meditation and maybe some self-analysis to see if we are actually growing up.  If you would kill or reject or condemn someone else because they are not your flavor in religion, sexuality, ethnicity, language or culture, than your religion did not help you to grow up.  If someone says, “Chocolate is the only ice cream flavor worth eating,” you would think them narrow.  God is deeper than any flavor.  Taste and enjoy God in any religion but know that God does beyond any flavor.  “Taste and see,” in deep prayer.  Oh, and chocolate really is best.