Let Life Be My Guide

Let life be my guide.Life is the spirit.Life is the quest.There is no God but life.God scurries in the secret places.God buds with the trees.God wavers on the wind like a bird in flight.God nuzzles in the undergrowth.God gets hungry. God grows cold.God lies awake at night worrying about the future.Wherever life is, there is God.God flames in the heavens like a burning eyeBringing light and life and colour to this earthly realm.God is the rain. God is the wind.God is the earth on which we depend.God is not a man. God is not a woman.God is not anything that can be conceived of by the human imagination.Perhaps God doesn't exist.But if he didn't exist we'd still have to invent him,Even if only to deny his existence.It doesn't matter either way.Whatever names you apply to the mystery of life,The mystery remains.Let's call it God and have done with it.God is not a being like you and I.God is the sum total of all being.The source. The origin. The one.If God is life then he belongs to us all.To the flower as much as the human.To the insect as much as the man.To the microbe. To the whale.Life is everywhere upon this earth.In the sea. In the sky.In the deepest, darkest caves.In the unimaginable depths of the greatest oceans,Where life makes its own light.And in us too, the human,With all our confusion and uncertainty.If we want to worship God, then why not worship ourselves?Oh yes. Isn't that what we've been doing all along?