shenright 51.0: write a letter

Dear God:

I don't need you the way I used to. You know... as some comforting caricature of an old, wise man... promising me that everything will be okay.

For a long time, you served as my father- spiritually and emotionally. I listened to the stories. I dissected the morals. I stood up for you when my friends tried to tell me that you didn't exist.

Now, it's not that I have come to agree with them. I will always believe in the meaning of everything, the collective unconscious and the good will in the theory behind all of your organized religions.

The problem is that these man-made interpretations don't do you justice. They are placid and boring. They are without the passion that faith and spirituality was supposedly based on.

You aren't a "you" anymore. You are a feeling. An energy. A philosophy even. And everything in between.

I simply refuse to continue trying to label you the way I have been brought up to. It's just too limiting.

Love You,
starz