Fr. Richard Rohr suggests:
Your image of God
creates you.
Let this sink in:
Your image of God
creates you.
I find this simultaneously
encouraging
and
unsettling.
Unsettling
because I'm very aware
that through much of my life
I imagined God to be
a threatening Father,
judgmental and harsh,
willing to disown me
if I didn't tow the line
(and so often I didn't tow the line).
What me
does this image of God create?
Fearful, insecure,
ungrounded, guarded,
conflicted, dying,
striving futilely for acceptance.
My image of God
creates me.
But now I know better.
I embrace this core biblical concept:
God is love.
What me does this image of God create?
Assured, accepted,
whole, welcoming,
at ease, alive,
growing ever toward joy.
That old image isn't entirely gone--
likely never will be--
but the more I experience
this truer, loving, liberating God,
the less often I'm tripped up by
the phantom God of judgment and death.
Your image of God
creates you.
What you is being created today?
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