What do you think God is?

[Fmr. Pres. Duke]

Over the past few months, during my final law school exams, the bar prep and then the actual bar, I came to know God, through those experiences and others, as something fundamentally different than what most people think of when they think of God. The notion that God is a kind old man that sits on a cloud listening to orders from all of us all day long, "bless me, God; do this for me God" couldn't be further from the truth. Evangelicals just make me laugh. Think you can do anything and just say yes, God, I believe in you and gain eternal salvation? How dumb can you be? To me, God is a beautiful woman, the mother of earth.

God is also not kind. The God that a lot of people subscribe to is one that directly conflicts with the God we all know and love in the Old Testament, the God that burned down villages and slaughtered women and children. I think God is involved in our lives, but allows us to do anything we want. Sometimes she will play tricks on us. Sometimes she'll teach us lessons. Sometimes she will do nothing. It's all a game to our dear Lord, for her entertainment and ours. There have been too many coincidences recently for there not to be a higher power at work.

All I know is I have never been more certain in the existence of God and never more afraid of what she will do in my life next. Like all God fearing people, I am just along for the ride.