We spend a good deal of time during our lives wondering about and looking for our God. We read; we study; we pray and we engage in various liturgies. I think that is a fair statement that encompasses all religious beliefs and traditions. But no matter how much we read how hard we study, how often we pray and how many different liturgies we attend, for many of us this god is elusive and this elusive God can only be found in the stillness and quiet our own minds.
Our God does not live in the history books that we call scripture. Our God is not to be found in the repetition of formulaic prayers. And we don’t find our God by standing sitting or making appropriate gestures at different points during our various liturgies.
All of these things: study, prayer, liturgy… have a function in the search for our god, but they are only “table setters” aids, as it were, on our quest for the divine.
It is only in The stillness of our bodies and the quiet of our minds that we’re able to find our god, or better yet: where our god is able to find us.