How to Profile God

"100 Artists See God" is an art exhibition that seeks to "reflect the pervasive, often ambiguous way God exists in and affects our culture". It is an artists view into the mystic, which , it seems to me, is the natural place for an artist.

We are in a culture where people are either struggling madly to acknowledge or falling over themselves to outright reject concepts like the existence of a God. Look at any forum discussing science and intelligent design and be sure to bring a fan and some ice because it is a heated debate.

These artists add to the debate in unusual ways. The arts have always provided unique ways to look at things. Poetry and visual art that springs from the non-linear right brain of the creators seem to impact us less with a deluge of words than with the power of a feeling. Emotions are connected simply, directly, in beauty and truth...even if that truth says the poet is atheist or agnostic. The point sometimes is to experience God through the artist. Even if the experience is one of not knowing God, or doubting Him. And how many of us, believers, agnostics, or atheist, have not swung widely on the pendulum of belief at times.

To me the easiest way to sense God is in silence and in the cradle of nature. I don't get that as much as I'd like. In my large and busy household, silence often comes only in sleeping and nature is summoned with a "here kitty, kitty" at feeding time. Some days I'm lost to know where God is in the rush of things. I feel sometimes I've out paced Him. And then...while I'm feeding the animals...just acknowleging the very life in them (and me) is the retreat that draws me back on the pendulum's swing. Those times are God, showing his ID.

Have a great Sunday!

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