Let’s Talk a Bit About God

eric mccarty
3 min readOct 13, 2021
Let’s Talk — Poetry — Headless Now — Moca McCarty Photo

Let’s talk a bit:

let’s talk a bit about God — and here I’ll be honest in that I’m offering just another concept, a description of my own view right now. God is a term I’m using and it will different than the one you may believe is true, it may fail to meet the expectations of someone’s disbelief as well. Nothing that follows should be taken in any literal sense, just my thoughts this early morning, a topic for my day.

any word can be replaced, even God, and the use of other terms may satisfy others, carrying less baggage for their ease of mind. Yet for now, let’s talk of essence, God as reality, and not separate as any source outside of our own self, of our bodies in their holiness, sacred through creation. There is no God outside of any of this, not separate from earth and the course of streams to oceans, mountains and sweep of sky from atop their view. This is God of forest, land, life through every detail. Perhaps it’s best to say that God is — and allow all that follows to hold as true.

yet I don’t believe in a God of intent, not one of purpose, nor design. God is evolution and spontaneity, particles in their attraction, the big bang and whatever came before. There is not a God of cause but only of continuous effect, happening, life in process. It’s when I try and look outside of any of this that problems seem to hold my mind — asking…

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eric mccarty

Writer, prose poetry, meditation teacher and lifetime student