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God Beyond Us
—Broadening Acceptance

God beyond us, Evolutionary Mystery,
sages in the ancient past have discerned in you
a kind of dancing divinity
to celebrate an indefinable and supreme divine liveliness.

Today scientists imagine your microcosmic world
as made up of a vibrational force
that gives shape to all physical reality.

We rejoice in each dancing strand of energy and music,
and for all prophetic theology casting metaphors of light
on your holy face.

Whatever you are, Spirit God,
we give you reverence and worship.

To do so seems an important part of our peculiar role
in this magnificently mysterious drama.

So be it.

posted 5/9/2008
from    Prayers to an Evolutionary God   (page 29)
by    William Cleary
publisher    Skylight Paths Publishing

 

William Cleary's Reflection on God Beyond Us (page 28)

Modern-day physics can be bewildering. Space, it turns out—the
concept of a great emptiness—does not really exist at all. For the
emptiness we imagine out there is not empty: it is filled with energy,
vibration, design—"music," in effect, on both cosmic and
microcosmic scales.

In an old song, we sing, "The hills are alive with the sound of music,"
but that is more than poetic imagining. It is literally true. The world
and space are all filled in—filled with vibration, rhythm, and waves.
This is also mentioned often in O'Murchu, who writes, "Energy ... is a
given reality, apparently with unlimited resourcefulness, and in the

unfolding of evolution's great story it exudes as a subtile, vibrational
force giving shape and direction to all being and becoming." We are
surrounded by many kinds of musical energy. The least we can do is
hum along.


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