Letters July 12, 1999 Issue

YOUR LETTERS

"I appreciated the fact that the series glimpsed the endless ways in which each of us can think about and relate to the one infinite God, good."

with contributions from Colleen Douglass, Marian Blue Ude

Thank you so much for your recent two-parter on "What is God?" (May 31 and June 7, 1999). It was both fun and enlightening to read others' perspectives of God and how the enlarged views have led to healing and harmony in their lives. This has certainly been true in my life as well.

I appreciated the fact that the series glimpsed the endless ways in which each of us can think about and relate to the one infinite God, good. Each individual had found a name for God that he or she felt compelled to write about. I also found myself wanting to integrate some of those names with each other to broaden my own concept of each. There's actually some history to this in my experience.

A number of years ago, I read somewhere that true mentality includes both intelligence and feeling. The argument reasoned that intelligence without feeling was nothing more than cold intellect, whereas feeling without intelligence was raw emotion. As I reasoned this through, I realized that intelligence has its source in God as Mind, whereas feeling has its source in God as Soul. Since there aren't two Gods, the integration of the two aspects of His nature gives us a balanced view of God and therefore of true mentality, which emanates from God.

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