God in Everything

The two images, separated by the green, are attempts at a visual representation. One is my former life, where I often heard…

-God is light, and in him, there is no darkness at all.
-God is the one who separates night and day, land and water, or male and female.
-God’s holiness is understood as separateness from creation.
-Our veneration of this God is best lived out in our commitment to abstain from “all appearance of evil.”

The other is my current life, where I often ask…

-If there is no darkness in God, what’s going on in the shadows?
-If God is the one separating night and day, land and water, male and female, where is God in the twilight, in the marshlands, in the one who is born intersex?
-Wouldn’t intellectually honest responses to these questions color our thoughts about love, faith, holiness, evil, and God?
-What motivated Jesus? Was it a commitment to stay within the boundary lines or a commitment to operate “in the gray?”
(Oh, and isn’t all of the binary, bordered, dark and light, right and wrong talk inevitably pointless, given our inability to find agreement in so many areas?)

Yeah, I’m now a “tiny dot, unable to distinguish where one thing ends and another begins kinda person.” I don’t always understand it, but I actually think love is in the middle. of. everything.