I sometimes feel this inhibition writing about God because of the misunderstandings around the word, so I was glad to write something that clarified that directly.

My journey has also gone through Taoism, as well as Buddhism and Wicca and a dash of Christianity. I never called myself any of those (well, I did call myself a Witch for awhile, but soon realized I liked the ideas and freedom to create my own spirituality more than the actual practices of ritual and magic.)

I like that I mix and match because I can usually talk to religious people in their own language. I’m flexible. I don’t demand they talk like me, I can talk to them in Christian-speak or Buddhist-speak.

One of the most helpful ideas I got from Wicca is the idea that gods, or even God if we give it a beard and a personality, are faces we put on the Divine All to make it easier to relate to, to talk to, to have a relationship with. To personalize the Universe. So I think of religion as a user-interface. So folks like you and me, we are just programming our own because we like the flexibility of custom features. Heh. =)