" The most intimate of all talk is talk about God" -Etty Hillesum

i have never found intimate talk about God to be anything less than: intimate. sometimes a conversation can get stuck in the opinions of God, whether God really exits or did God actually create the world in seven days??? we like to get stuck in the facts and logistics rather than talking about or accepting the wonders and extraordinary blueprint of God. its far easier to argue about whose God makes more sense.

yesterday, i participated in organic intimacy with several others and God was the topic of discussion. from this impromptu storytelling i learned just how loving (but firm) God is. How God gives us a "spanking" when we need it most, and how different we are from God. Truly God lives within us, and we can encounter God in creation. look at the moon and marvel at the stars or the rising and setting of the sun, or the strength of the violent waves in the massive seas (that almost took my friend in peru). or the snow decorating the roofs of Seattle (snowed yesterday), or your family and friends and their beauty. these share the sameness or oneness we share with our Maker. but through the testimony of M, a practicing muslim- converted to (now) a practicing christian, i learned how different the "natural mind" is in comparison with that of God. He referenced the verse in Isaiah 55:8, "My thoughts are nothing like your thoughts," says the LORD. "And my ways are far beyond anything you could imagine. (New Living Translation) M concretized this verse by giving insight on adam, when he ate of the fruit that he wasn't supposed to and felt is nakedness, the only thing he though to do was take fig leaves and cover himself. only later did God teach him to take the skin off of an animal and use that to cover up. The logic of a human is said to be irrational is said to be unruly. separated by the mainstream educated he sit and figure out systems that take us further from God's center. All God wants is this: "For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the LORD, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. (Jeremiah 29:11). I make up all these alternate plans and all the while God has a perfect one for me, ready for me to live in it. Jesus, is ready to show us and reveal to us what this is through the Holy Spirit of God. It is all a predestined order, and yet non-sensical to the natural mind. It only speaks to our spiritual minds. We should pray to know how to tell the difference. Because we are 2 in 1. A spiritual mind in a natural mind and vise versa. Both make us human, and both make us different than God.