I prefer the term All That Is, but I'll stick with God for now. To me, God is the source of all the unconditional love, joy, and beauty that created this, and other, realities. We were created--or sourced--from this unconditional energy called God, so therefore we are all part of that God. When we place God outside of ourselves then we are denying our own divinity and cutting ourselves off from that source of unconditional energy.

God is one-ness. Gender is a function of duality, so to assign gender to God is to deny the God-ness of God. I just can't buy the concept of God as an aging white guy with a long flowing beard who sits on a throne on some cloud looking down at us ready to send a thunderbolt down at anyone who does something naughty. That kind of a God is one of fear, one used by some to control others. God is not about fear or judgment or wrath. These are human attributes.

God is unconditional. God is pure love. God is what we were before we split ourselves up into a whole bunch of people. God is the source of our life and our power, and to put God outside of ourselves is to cut ourselves off from that life and power and love. God is within each and every one of us. We cannot know what God is until we realize and reclaim our own divinity. That is where God is, and God is also in everything else: All That Is. The prevailing concepts of God are concepts of separation. God is out there, and we are here. If God is All That Is then God is everywhere, not just out there. There is no separation. This notion of separation is what cut us off from God. When these psychological veils of separation dissipate, then we can see that God is All That Is, and we can then realize our own divinity.

All the images we hold of God are really self-images. We are the ones that are judgmental and vengeful and angry (and male oriented). We are God. We volunteered to undergo the separation so that we could go through an individuation process, creating many Gods out of ONE. Until we discover the God within us, God will always be a concept of separation.

Yes, God just is. (All That Is) The words, I AM are extremely powerful words, for they are a proclamation of one's divinity, which is a valuable step in realizing that divinity. God is everywhere: In a rock, in a flower, in the animals, in our computers, in the sky, in the oceans, in our nuclear warheads, in our automobiles, in the food we eat, in the air we breathe, and yes, in the mirror. If we can't see God in the mirror, then we can't really see God, so we create a God "out there" to lord over us as some supreme authority, and we then give that image of God all the human attributes that we do see in the mirror. We can't see a God of unconditional love until we see the unconditional love in the mirror.

If you put God in the middle of a large open field and then placed one thousand people in a huge circle around God, looking in at God, and if you were to ask each of those one thousand people what their perception of God was, you would get one thousand different answers; one thousand different perceptions. And each and every one of them would be valid. Yes, we do create our own realities, and we create them through our perceptions. However we perceive God, so God is to us, and that is our truth, and it is as valid as anyone's else's perception. The reality we perceive is the reality we have created and the reality we have created is the one we experience.

The reality of a vengeful God with a long white beard sitting on a throne on a cloud is as valid and real to the one who believes it as the God who is loving and peaceful and omnipresent and unconditionally loving is to the one who believes that perception. If one perceives God as a loving father figure, then that is exactly how God will manifest to the one perceiving. God is exactly whatever we perceive it to be. That's how unconditional God is. That's one way how God can be All That Is. Just one way.

And if God is as we perceive it, then doesn't that put the nature of God in our control? And doesn't that make us a God, too?

Is that perhaps why God made us? Is that why god split itself into so many pieces; so that it could turn around and look at itself, and see itself from so many new and different perspectives? Are we God getting to know itself? Are we God's mirror? Or is God our mirror?