Winter, 2007
Long ago, members of the Religious
Society of Friends were called Quakers because some of them – our predecessors
– literally quaked to experience the presence of God. No wonder!
I’d quake, too, if I experienced God being right here right now!
But
I believe God is in every person – in each of us here now – and I’m not
quaking. Why not? Is it because, in my imagination or my faith,
there’s such a difference between God as a separate presence and God diffused
within each of us? Is it because I am so
accustomed to being with people that God in you – in even one of you – or in me
is not God enough to quake for? Is it
because I am far from fully experiencing God in people, even myself?
