Focusing back on Spirit today, we ask questions around how we refer to God. Do we limit God by only referring to God as ‘father’. When we use that term, we know as we use it that it is an incomplete description of God as God is totally and indescribably different from humankind.

And yet … so many people feel uncomfortable referring to God as ‘mother’, another incomplete description of God.

Any way we describe God is incomplete, but one way of acquiring a more complete image of God is to choose to take an inclusive approach to the descriptions of God that we find in the Bible.

God is not simply father, or mother, or creator, or wind, or fire, or almighty, or alpha, or ancient of days, or healer, or banner, or judge, or shepherd … or any name we use.

If we start to think of God as ALL of these, we are still a million miles away from the true reality of who God is, but we are much closer than we are if we restrict ourselves.