Understanding?

 It is OK for someone new to the spiritual path to have a "god of their understanding."  It is a start.  As time goes on and if the spiritual path deepens in this ongoing time, one realizes that no one understands God.  God is not a thing or in a place.  Go is.  But though we cannot understand God we can love God.  The beginner has no sense of this.  It is probably nonsense or sentimental to the beginner.  I try to be patient with the beginner, but feel a certain sadness for one who says they have been on a spiritual path for a long time, but still are with the god they know.  Spiritual paths are comfortable and comforting, until they are not.  Then the transformation begins.  As Bill says, "abandon yourself."