I Believe in God

I loved how Ken equated beauty with reality. The Apostle’s Creed is recited at every Catholic mass but I had never really reflected on it in dept until I listed to this conversation with Brother David. In considering the creed David has three meaningful questions:

·        What does it mean?

·        How do I know? (What has my experience been?)

·        Why is it important?

The first line is “I believe in God”. David explains that we can think of God as life. To believe is to have a deep abiding trust in the goodness and beauty of life. The source of this trust is our vaster self who is the observer of our object self. The challenge is to draw this down into our contracted suffering object self. This is important because if we are able to live with this deep, abiding, and loving trust we suffer less, are less likely to do harm to reality, and are more likely to serve it in humility. To live deeply in this beautiful trust is to live a Heavenlike life on Earth. One method to achieve this is to spend time in the presence of saintlike persons like David and Ken.

As we live with more and more connection with the alive, loving, and caring presence we can become more and more grateful, and therefore more and more joyous. I am certainly grateful that this wonderful talk was made available to us and that Brother David is connected with us. Thank you.

I think that every Christian sould be proud to accept the historic Jesus as a magnificent guru. Historically the problem has been in trying to force people of other faiths to do the same.