finding God

Real Live Preacher (syndicated at preachermanfeed) wrote an interesting article, which he concluded as follows:

Ok, as long as I'm asking, could I get a letter officially confirming the existence of the God that I've given my whole life to following? Could that letter also tell me exactly where God is located? If "where" is an appropriate concept, that is.

This is the letter I'm sending him:

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The God you have given your whole life to following is all around you. Not in that mystic "God is in everything" sense, but more directly. We are created b'tzeit elo[k]im, in the image of God; that can't be physical because God is not limited to a body, so what do you think that means? I think it means that there are echoes of God in people all around us. God is in the heavens (and no, we can't know "where"), but God's reflections are all around us. But you have to look and listen.

I pray to God, but it's the stranger on the street or the friend or the relative I interact with, and that is where Godly actions take place. Faith is nothing without action, after all. If I focus on the heavens alone, what good is anything I do?

Does God actually exist? Ask yourself if that really matters, if taking that as hypothesis leads you to live the kind of life you want to live. Why look for proof? Would it change anything?

When I became religious (I wasn't always) I found that something was pulling at me. I didn't know what it was, but I finally decided to hypothesize the existence of God, pray and act as if I believed it, and see what happened. I guess I'm a scientist (or perhaps an engineer) at heart. And you know what? I saw results. Not results that I could show to anyone else, mind you; that's not how it works. But results enough to convince me that there was in fact a God out there who gave a hoot about me. Pretty amazing stuff.