I find the multiplicity of names for God, especially the “I Am” names, to be both confusing and reassuring. Understanding God as fundamentally Present is reassuring. That Divinity exists and is with us is a comfort. That Divinity is mysterious and ungraspable makes God hard to wrap my head around, but I think there is some comfort in that as well. An ambiguous God is hard to hold dogmatic ideas about… which I think is a good thing. Leaving room for diverse understandings and unclutching our certainties allows us to encounter divinity in ways we might have been closed off to and also allows us to glimpse Divinity in practices and spiritualities that may be different from our own.
I think it is important to allow for diverse understandings of God and to accept a multiplicity of understandings as valid for the individuals who hold them. Allowing this space makes room for us to meet each other and embrace our own forms of connection and each other without condemning that which is different from our individual understandings.
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