God awareness is spirituality as individually defined. This is the state of our experience that John Courtney Murray in his 1964 book, “The Problem of God”, calls the scandal of particularity. On page 13 he explains this scandal as follows.
“Through all
the sweep of space, in all the course of time, along all the train of humanity,
why is God present here and there, now and then, to this nation or man and not
to others? There is indeed a scandal for
intelligence here.”
We humans
have no intelligent, plausible or consistent answer. One may ask, why Billy Graham, why Jacob Boehme, why the Buddha,
why Muhammed, why Mahatma Gandhi, or even why Jesus? The best we can do is to guess. Guessing is generally
a function of religion but religious guessing is merely a circling of the wagons. Some
of us would like to hear some guesses from the world-wide congregation of
souls.
On what basis does the God of the galaxies, who lives among us, decide to break through into our consciousness? How does this God choose the who, the what and the where? What are the God rules? Are there any God rules?
You got me? For now, all that can be said is that God
appears to choose from those who somehow become available.
G. Goslaw
Landers, Ca.
