Today's Lent meditation asks how we think of God: as a punitive authority? a kindly but powerless grandfather? a judge with a long record of our misdeeds?
I think it is very true that how I think of God influences my relationship with Him. When I think of God the Creator I am in awe and a bit afraid of this powerful God who seems to big. When I think of God the Father, that is better, but then I don't want to disappoint Him, so I try to hide my failings. God the Holy Spirit is both inspiring and scary, God the judge of the Old Testament I try not to think about - how does He fit with the Abba of the New? Jesus I can talk to, and he's the one I come to for comfort and forgiveness, he was human and knows what I am all about.
Perhaps I need to integrate my view of God, and learn to love and trust Him in all His various aspects. I wish there was a "mother" God, or any kind of woman God to talk to - sometimes a girl just wants another woman to talk to.
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