How does one speak of God? Humankind has been trying to do that ever since it first discovered language. To speak of God is to attempt the impossible. Human language is inadequate to express what our minds and spirits can only dimly comprehend.

But still we must try to speak of God. We must. Otherwise, we can never be fully human, all that we are meant to be.

We try to speak of God, the divine mystery. And because God is mystery, we should not be surprised if our attempts to speak of this mystery often sound childlike. People of ancient times saw that the sun and rain made plants grow and so they worshipped the sun and the rain as gods. Other ancient peoples wondered how the world and sky came to be and so they worshipped a god they called the Maker, the Creator. They knew they could not liv…