St. Louise de Marillac: Animator of the Confraternities of Charity
Tomorrow's spirituality
1. Tomorrow's God
We need a new kind of Spirituality. A kind of Spirituality that will allow humans to
express their natural impulse to seek and to experience the Divine without making each
other wrong for the way in which they are doing it, and without killing each other in the
name of it.
The perception of many people on earth is that God’s job is to tell human beings what is
best for them and it is up for us to do it, or else.
This belief is a fallacy. That is not God’s job and that is not God’s purpose and that is
not God’s function.
It is the job and purpose of the God that many of you have created in your imagination,
but not of the God who really is. It is the function of Yesterday’s God but not of
Tomorrow’s God.
What is meant is not a new God but a new version of God, a larger version of
God. This is the same God who always Was, Is Now, and Always Will Be – it is simply
not a God of your understanding.
This is an invitation to create another Way.
There is another way. There is another way to experience God. There is another way
to live life. Our differences do not have to create divisions. Our contrast does not have
to produce conflicts. The variations in our beliefs do not have to bring violence in our
lives.
THERE IS ANOTHER WAY.
Yet we will not find that way by searching for it. We will find it by creating it. And we will
not create it by remaining stuck in old beliefs, but only opening ourselves to new ideas,
new ideas about God and about life that can truly light the world.
From our thoughts springs our reality. From our ideas our future emerges. Thus our
beliefs create new behaviors and our behaviors create our experience.
What we believe therefore, becomes a most important thing.
The first important difference between Yesterday’s God and Tomorrow’s God:
1. Tomorrow’s God does not require anyone to believe in God.
2. Tomorrow’s God is without gender, size, shape, color, or any of the characteristics of
an individual living being.
2. 3. Tomorrow’s God talks with everyone all the time.
Everyone is having conversations with God all the time. That will be an important
message of the new spirituality. God is communicating with humanity in every moment.
God did not stop talking to human beings 2000 years ago nor have God ever selected
only a few human beings to whom to reveal himself. God is revealing to all human
beings all the time, yet only a few human beings have embraced these revelations,
have seen them for what they are, and have held them as sacred – and so it seems as
thought only a few have received them.
God the force, the energy, the design, the experience that some call Divinity – shows
itself in your life in the way that is exactly and perfectly suited to time, place and
situation at hand. You either call that experience “God” or you call it something else –
coincidence – synchronicity “random event,” whatever, yet what you call it does not
change what it is – it merely indicates your belief system about that.
If you believe that the way life is showing itself to you now is God, you will see it as
God. If you do not believe that the way life is showing itself to you now is God, you will
not see it as God. Some say seeing is believing but I tell you believing is seeing.
God is a Constant. God is that which is Constantly Present and Constantly Changing,
suiting itself to each moment, so that God may be understood in that moment,
embraced in that moment, experience in that moment and expressed in that moment.
You are never alone. God is always with you. Yet you may often be unable to see
God or experience God if you are expecting God to show up in a certain way – as do so
many of those who believe in Yesterday’s God.
There is no limit to the ways in which God may show up. Many humans have attempted
to place limits on God but have, as a result, placed limits on themselves and on their
ability to see and experience God.
On your Yesterday’s you have believed in a limited God. On a blessed tomorrow you
will begin to believe in a limitless God, who can appear in any form, under any
circumstances, to any person, and, indeed to all people in all places all the time.