Divine Patience

A. Unabashed Pacifist:

No peace is complete without you.

B. Unabashed Christian:

Holy One,

Life is a constant surprise to me. Usually a good surprise. It would make me happy if I knew we sometimes provide you with pleasant surprises, too. I hope that’s not presumptuous. I just worry that being all-knowing could become boring, and I think even you should experience the joy of an occasional surprise.
Amen

C. Un-quoting Jesus:

“We’ve got a huge crowd here today, so be sure to pass the plates guys.”

[One wonders how they supported themselves, but even if He had said something like this, I think it would have involved baskets instead of plates.]

D. Blog: Divine Patience

I marvel at God’s patience. I understand that from the perspective of eternity, time has little meaning. We humans, on the other hand, all too conscious of our mortality, are acutely aware of the passage of time.

Still, untold billions of human years to bring the current universe into being, untold billions of years to birth human life? It staggers my imagination that even divinity could have such patience. The patience to guide us to a measure of maturity as a species gets a bit easier to comprehend, as does the process of maturing in an individual life. But from my perspective, it took far too long for me to reach a point of feeling relatively comfortable with a humility in relation to divinity, an acceptance that the One we call God remains totally beyond my control, One therefore whose mystery and whose patience remain more than I can comprehend.