What’s in a name?

There is the expression ‘Blessed be the name of God’ just as sometimes we think of someone who is very special to us and we say ‘Blessed be Hywel’s name, or Christina’s.’ The name, however, is just a label. A rose by any other name will smell as sweet. It is only when we smell the rose, and experience its colour and shape, that we experience the rose. And so it is only through sitting quietly that we begin to experience that which we may call God.

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That stumbling word

The word God has increasingly become a stumbling block for so many. What is important to grasp is that  God is not a person, neither male nor female. As Meister Eckhart wrote, ‘God is no thing’. The nearest we can get is that of a cosmic energy and intelligence behind  this universe.  For myself, God is like an ocean of Love in which we live and move and have our being. But first we have to learn to swim!

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