There are so many people I know who had some kind of religious background, ditched it for whatever reason and feel like, well that’s it. My career is over. Like they got kicked out of the quilting bee so now they’re only option is to stay home and watch soap operas by themselves. But I sense from so many of these people that they’d *like* to feel more spiritually connected in their life.

I read Money Drunk, Money Sober- because I’m a Julia Cameron fan. And in the context of the 12 step process where you give your issues over to a higher power they say that if your image of God is lousy - find a better one.

I thought I was stuck with the image of God I’d been given as a kid. But when I looked at it, it makes total sense that we get the God we deserve. In other words - if I believe I’m inherently bad, need to be punished and there isn’t enough to go around guess how I’m going to see God? That’s right, a nasty school master miserly doling out the treats when I happen to be deserving - like never. And that may be some people’s God, but not mine.

Deepak Chopra has a book called How to Know God and it gets deep into this. He reviews the various visions of God based on how one views the world and even one’s personality. It’s a great way to understand what kind of view of God you were handed, and what it could be. I found myself using it as a way to glimpse other God images And understand how I could bring my own up a notch. God can be about inuition, creativity and bliss? Sign me up for a piece of that :-)

There’s a bit in the Upanishads that says - People follow different paths, straight or crooked, according to their temperament, depending on which they consider best, or most appropriate — and all reach You, just as rivers enter the ocean.

No matter which river I take, I’m going to reach a better version of God.