Your Own God

Since the time of childhood we are told many stories.

Lovely tales of God and spirits who come to help in the time of need. We are told that when the student is ready the teacher appears. We are told that when help is needed it miraculously arrives.

We are all colored by our experiences. And what we come to know as reality is not the stories that we have been told, but the hard and real experiences of our lives.

For the man who has seen the deities, God exists. For the one who has not, he is only a dream. Neither of them is wrong. For each is functioning from a place of personal experience.

The trouble arises for the man who has not seen God, but hopes that he will one day come. The trouble arises for the man who believes the story that when he is in need, his prayers will be answered.

I would hazard to guess that the majority of human beings live in a world in which such things don’t come true. That for most people these stories, forever remain stories.

In this instance, what is left? The man is left with himself and his mind. He must learn to make due. He must understand that no one is coming to his aid. That if there are indeed helpful spirits, that if there is indeed a God, that he is perhaps busy tending to others.

Perhaps the greatest realization that a man can have is that he must deal with the reality that confronts him. Today. Now.

And that, for him, this is the way it will always be.

In abandoning the wait, he takes to action. He takes matters into his own hands. And manufactures a makeshift life from the circumstances that he finds himself in.

In realizing that he is utterly alone, he becomes his own God.

Perhaps this is who he has been waiting for all along.