Everything I Ever Needed to Know I Learned in ...

Thursday the 3rd

Everything I ever needed to know I learned in...

Going Forward;

I didn't stay mad at God for long. As was my usual response to a seemingly unfair circumstance, I found a way around the rules. That 'means of escape' thing again. In my young mind I reasoned that the nuns, the priests, all the way up to the pope, had gotten it wrong somehow. They were misrepresenting the Supreme Being. Not out of a malicious will to intentionally deceive. They simply didn't know any better.

I thought about the ants going about their daily rounds in my backyard and how little they could know about me. This was likely how impossible it was for mere human minds to understand God. The motives of these pedagogues were most likely as pure as their comprehension was skewed. They only wanted to insure that none of us were lost, whatever that might mean. My God was not so small as to let infants spend all of eternity in Limbo! My God would not condemn the very creation for which he/she/it was responsible. (by this time the notion of applying terms of gender to the Supreme Being had gone the way of my previous clinging to belief in Santa Claus or the 'tooth fairy'.)

It didn't seem blasphemy to me to have a bigger God in mind than the one that had been proposed to me in catechism, by the nuns and priests. Later in life I would be introduced to even smaller versions of God by folk with even smaller minds. But these very early feelings that most of what passes for knowledge of a Supreme Being were blatant examples of over-simplifications eventually led me on a search for the Divine which has been well rewarded. So what seemed like total misconceptions with regard to the Subject was to affect my consciousness in a positive way after all.