Be Still!

This is information for all those religious fanatics that are hating on everyone that doesn't share their beliefs.

GOD IS NOT DEAD

God did not quit communicating with us the minute your particular holy book was completed.

God did not have a favorite people.

God does not hate people that don't behave the way you think they should.

If you want to hear what God is saying to you--be still!

And don't expect words to pop into your mind.  Words limit us.  We have known for a long time that the language a person speaks and thinks in, will alter their thoughts/perceptions/beliefs about the world.  People in places without snow have no words to describe it, people with lots of snow have a multitude of words describing it in great detail and specificity.  People without words for time or numbers, or writing will not describe or value those things.  God does not need words.  People do because they have forgotten to listen, forgotten to be still.

If you think you have never heard God, then ask yourself if you have ever been outside, standing in the sun or the rain or the wind with no one else around, and rather than thinking in words about your day or your plans or your worries or what you should do next, you just experienced that moment.  For a moment or two you were still.  Maybe you just felt very peaceful, but maybe you had a moment of exhaltation or  a strange awareness that you knew something that you didn't know before, but you have no words to tell anyone about it.
No Words!
And yet you knew something you didn't know before.  No thoughts that you could wrap your mind around and share, but the feeling of spiritual growth, of new awareness was there.

Read your holy books, there is wisdom in them... all of them... and misconceptions, and hate, and ugliness, a lot like a good Stephen King novel or a superman comic (and I encourage people to continue to read those and other books as well).

 But if you seek God, if you want to become a better person, a wiser person, then be still as often as possible...
And listen to God!