it is always between you and your god -erin

noun as verb: it is always and only ever between you and your god

it is always and only ever between you and your god
when you are in love or with your children   ...    ...
when you believe in nothing (perhaps especially then) 
"god" is your love, your children, your hallelujah, your belief and your ability to be bereft of it

// ~ when I wretch lay wrestling with, my God!, my God //

// but, Gerard Manley Hopkins did not mean not a person.  nor do I.

// H as always a theologian: how to speak of God, and that He can not be
spoken of in the manner in which one speaks of objects -- this was the
path that his thinking ...




noun as verb: i kiss this mind that can hold nothing

i believe that god is not god but rather that this word points to our
origins, our wider state of being, the wholeness of the world, of
existence, all of existence, not just human existence. i write this so
that i remember. and even with these black strokes, even if i remember
the words, i know i will in some essential and rooted way forget.
/ H: forgetting Being

// and Natalia Ginzburg Human Virtue