I want to write about God for people who 'don't do God'; in plain simple language stripped of religious jargon. It's too easy to hide behind formula words and to be unclear, even in our own minds, what we really believe.

I find, when talking to 'non religious friends', that the God they disbelieve in is one I don't believe in either. If there is a God above the clouds manipulating events to his own ends then he's either not very good at what he does or distinctly lacking in compassion. The God I believe in is not like that.

A God who is easy to understand and grasp is hardly worth knowing. If God is not beyond our comprehension then what is? The God I believe in is beyond everything. He doesn't sit outside his creation, manipulating or remaining indifferent to it he embraces it in its entirety. He is infinite, the creative force behind an ever expanding universe.

But the same God who is infinite, beyond our comprehension, infuses every molecule of our being. He cares for every hair on our head and is more in tune with our true nature than we are. To be at one with him is to be in tune with our true nature and to become the people we were meant to be.

Psalm 139
1 O LORD, you have searched me and you know me.
2 You know when I sit and when I rise; you perceive my thoughts from afar.
3 You discern my going out and my lying down; you are familiar with all my ways.
4 Before a word is on my tongue you know it completely, O LORD.
5 You hem me in—behind and before; you have laid your hand upon me.
6 Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, too lofty for me to attain.
7 Where can I go from your Spirit? Where can I flee from your presence?
8 If I go up to the heavens, you are there; if I make my bed in the depths, you are there.
9 If I rise on the wings of the dawn, if I settle on the far side of the sea,
10 even there your hand will guide me, your right hand will hold me fast.
11 If I say, "Surely the darkness will hide me and the light become night around me,"
12 even the darkness will not be dark to you; the night will shine like the day, for darkness is as light to you.
13 For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother's womb.
14 I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well.
15 My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place. When I was woven together in the depths of the earth,
16 your eyes saw my unformed body. All the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.
17 How precious to me are your thoughts, O God! How vast is the sum of them!
18 Were I to count them, they would outnumber the grains of sand. When I awake, I am still with you.
19 If only you would slay the wicked, O God! Away from me, you bloodthirsty men!
20 They speak of you with evil intent; your adversaries misuse your name.
21 Do I not hate those who hate you, O LORD, and abhor those who rise up against you?
22 I have nothing but hatred for them; I count them my enemies.
23 Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts.
24 See if there is any offensive way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.

I want to write about God in a simple down to earth way. The reason I want to do that is I believe in a 'down to earth' God. I expressed it in this poem:

My God's a down to earth God
A feet on the ground
Sweat on the brow God.

No up in the sky
Head in the clouds God
A proper down to earth God.

My God's a down to earth God
A smell of stable
Pricked by straw God.

No distant, aloof God
A dust on his feet
Tried out and tested God.

My God's a down to earth God
A real hands on
Making men whole God.

No unfriendly, life denying God
But a water to wine
Breaking bread God.

My God's a down to earth God
A nailed to a cross
Pierce him, he bleeds God.

Not dead and defeated
But a risen again
With us today, oh so alive God.

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Have mercy on me, O God, in your great goodness; •
according to the abundance of your compassion
blot out my offences.