It gave a jog to what I'm always trying to point out. No one has "left." We still hold up "God" as "Other" and there's the rub. It's not that He has "forsaken" us in our suffering. That IS the suffering, this "Otherness" which we've bought into, the "Otherness" of the "God" of religion. It's not even that we're "a part of" Him. A part of something can be severed, cut away. Then you are apart. This is ALL in the mind, not in Reality at all. In the mind that may be real indeed, and out of this bizarre Ignorance massive destruction can be visited by people on other people. Yet "in Him we live and move and have our Be-ing." We're not forsaken, we've only forgotten.
If God Alone exists, either "you" don't (correct), and you are the illusion or dream or fantasy - or else, you are in and of Him, neither a part nor apart (also correct) - the rest is developing your Relation-ship with That. Be that through your religion or whateveryoucallit, you are divine in your humanity.
Now I just read again where the great (physicist par excellence) Steven Hawkings is not afraid of his eventual death and is a declared scientific atheist. Well and good, he says of course we have to stand on our own two feet (neither of which he has, but that's beside the point) and take responsibility for our own destiny. Good advice, no argument there, but the problem is that with all their certainty people who hold to a notion (it is only a notion) of "a-theism" run aground sooner or later on those very existential issues which they cannot escape. No one on earth is born without parents. And God is our Mother and our Father (fine, call it my notion).
Or it's like being in a room full of oxygen and claiming you don't need that to breathe, sounds silly but fitting - it is like that.
Yet even Hawkings, I read in the article, grants at least a "God-Something" as being behind the ordered chaos of the Grand Combustion we see in the Universe and all these heavenly bodies and principles coming into manifestation. So where's that leave one?
It's exactly the religious or believing who get bent out of shape over being "forsaken" when tragedy occurs, when lives fall apart, when unbearable loss is forced upon one, when murder and mayhem reign. Everyone can forsake you and leave you out in the cold, God cannot do that, where would He "go"?
What all the "Divine Messengers of Humanity" (who were all mystics, which only simply means they had direct and conscious, unbroken experience of God) said in one form or another, and what I find most beautifully expressed in Qur'an or by Muhammad or both, whatever: is that God is nearer to one than one's jugular vein, nearer to one than one's own breath.
Not that you'll find a Muslim who believes that, any more than you'll find the average Christian who grasps Jesus Christ, or a Jew who knows this any better.
Consider a light bulb. You have a thin, tender little wire in there, you could snap it by just shaking or dropping the bulb without even breaking the glass. Bummer, shit happens. But when the juice is turned on there's an electric current permeating that wire. That gives out a light which fills the bulb, and this being glass, illuminates the whole room. So you can find those keys you left laying around somewhere.
I would gladly, gently remind any who wants to know "Where was God when..." - Go into that bulb of yours, study that wire, give it your loving consideration, and don't "think" about the electricity in the house, that's been taken care of, just hit the switch and leave it on.
Forsaken? Switch on the juice, it was always there and never left you.
Love is the key.
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