You also need to know how misled it is to see or create distance between yourself and other people of faith based on how they variously communicate the notion or name of God in their different faith traditions and languages. When you hear the voice of the One who calls you, recognize that there is no difference in identity among the One with no name, YHWH, God, Allah, Lord, or other verbal identifiers in other languages or faith traditions for the One whom English speakers call God. Those are merely different names, different verbal utterances, to identify the same Spirit God and Lord of all.
And while I persist in referring to the One who calls us as He or Him, I do so only out of historical grammatical form and use of language. He/She is just such clumsy and unsightly usage anytime, and “It” will never do when referring to the One who calls us, the Lord of Life. God is somehow in substance and identity living Love and Spirit, and in fact admits of no divisive or differentiating qualities such as gender. God is not and cannot be limited or contained in any of these ways.
First written: November 2006 – January 2007, updated November 2007 - March 2008
© Gregory E. Hudson 2007
