Insight into One Women's Retreat

Date: January 31, 2005
From: MJS

I attended a Women’s Retreat over the past weekend, a time both full and rich with learning, conversation, laughter and renewal. But the one insight I really want to hold on to is that God is Love is Radiance is Light.

Joseph Campbell on videotape was describing how every culture and people is seaching for an understanding of God, and we find their religious concepts embodied in their art, their stories, their liturgies and rituals, their patterns of life. But God is neither outside it all, nor contained in it all. None of those attempts at explanations is adequate because we just cannot comprehend It. Campbell smiled broadly, and passed the fingers of one hand through the fingers of the other: God is Radiant Light, passing through all those cultural depictions and we get a glimpse each time.

That same Radiant Light passes through each of us, and we must be transparent for others to see God in us: transparent is to be without deceipt or bitterness or anger or hatreds or judgements. I hope I can hang on to that!




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