A HAPPY GOD

My God is a happy God. He laughs with amusement at our deeds and with indulgence at
our conceits. Sometimes, perhaps, he is mildly surprised at what we can do both
above and below his expectation. But he is never angry. He has no call to be. By our
misdeeds we do not threaten him, we threaten ourselves and probably make him
chuckle at our self importance and pomposity, as we may chuckle if a toy created by
us acted peculiarly.
My God is perhaps amused that we mistake our state of mind for his, transfer our emotions to him
and even assign 'Him' a gender and, often, a form. e give him myriad names and treat
these names, thought up !y us, spe"ia#. He is amused that we a"t s"ared when we risk his
anger in our imagination. He is perhaps a#so amused when we $ump to 'defend' him, when
nothing any of us "an do "an harm him even one #itt#e !it.
%here are those amongst us who think that they speak for my God. Many of them are #ying, either
for gain for themse#ves in this wor#d or hope of gain in the other one. Or, they are sin"ere#y
de#uded into thinking that they are God's &hosen Ones, authori'ed to speak on his !eha#f
to their fe##ow(men and women. %hese #ast are no #ess harmfu# or point#ess than those who
are knowing#y hypo"riti"a#. )eing saved from God's so "a##ed anger is #ess urgent than
!eing saved from their se#f(righteous wrath, whi"h, usua##y, has more to do with their
"hosen path than with their averred destination.
My God has no reason to !e angry, sar"asti" or $ea#ous. e are #ike infants for Him and no one
e*"ept the impatient or immature wou#d inf#i"t these sentiments on infants. And God is "ertain#y
neither.
My God e*pe"ts me to view his &reation with an open and +uesting mind and #ive in it with
#ightness of spirit and vi!ran"y of fee#ing. Goodwi## and to#eran"e are a part of his e*pe"tation. He
views my progress towards him with the measure of how 'One' , fee# with a## that sprang from him.
%his Oneness eventua##y #eads to its sour"e, himse#f, and is !eyond any of our puny "on"epts of
'divinity' or 'ho#iness' or even '!#iss'. %hose who tou"h even the edge of this Oneness, rea#ise that
mankind has no word in any #anguage that "an do it $usti"e. A## our e*pe"tations of heaven fa##
severe#y short in its unending fu#fi##ment.
%here are on#y a very few women and men who have a right to speak of God, as he wou#d want
us to speak of him. %hese rare ones have tasted this 'One(ness' in fu## measure. %hey shine #ike
stars in our "onste##ation and are marked !y the unity of their thought and the !enign(ness of their
deeds. %hough re#igions and ritua#s may have formed around them, these Masters are !eyond
re#igion and ritua#s. %he '-mi#e of God' shines through their own smi#e. hen we are in tune with
them, we "an fee# some of their great $oy inside ourse#ves. And, if this happens to us when we get
on#y a se"ond hand g#impse of God, imagine how happy he himse#f must !e.
Yes, my God is a happy God. ith the power to do whatever he wants, how "an he !e
otherwise. %hus, , do not fear the wrath of God. , fear on#y the wrath of my own "ons"ien"e whi"h
God put there. /or, u#timate#y it is not God who wi## "riti"a##y $udge my a"tions. ,t is my own -e#f