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| (Greenfield Village, Dearborn) |
Years ago, on a clear August night, Linda and I stepped out of our house to see the anticipated Perseid meteor
shower. We stood in the darkness of our yard. She leaned into my arms, and I
held her as we looked at the perfectly clear starry sky.
I have never gotten
over the feeling of wonder and awe and smallness that comes when I look into
the vastness of space. I wanted Linda and I to see just one meteor together. We
waited and waited until it finally came, streaking across the vast black canopy!
My
experience with God is like this. As I meditate on God’s stunning creation I am
given insights into the being of God. In God there is a greatness and a
perfection that dwarfs the cosmos.
This is
about God’s essential attributes, to include omniscience, omnipotence,
omnibenevolence, atemporality[1],
nonphysicality, omnipresence, and all of which are ascribed to a
necessarily existing (everlasting; without beginning or end) Being.
So it is that, when I survey God’s
wondrous analytic predicates, my praying life is transfigured.
[1]
An excellent discussion about God’s relationship to time is found in God andTime: Four Views, by Gregory Ganssle and Paul Helm.
