I recorded a program today on the Star of Bethlehem and am looking at it now. They talked to a bunch of historians and astronomers, to make a long story short. The Magi were clearly demonstrated to be stargazers with knowledge of what we would call astrology. The star itself was possibly Jupiter doing something odd, or a supernova. The point was that it attracted people who watched the sky.
In any event, it made me think how people personalize the cosmos and can quickly assume God when they simply don't have an explanation or are somehow not satisfied with the mundane.
. . . 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.
Sounds like a significant other!
