When I drive into Springfield (OH), there is a church sign that currently reads "Jesus is comming soon" [sic] at Beatty Freewill Baptist Church. On both sides. Was the misspelling intentional to get me to pay extra attention to it? It's been there for weeks. For over a year this sign read, "Visitors Welcome; Members Expected."
When driving into Yellow Springs, Bethel Lutheran Church has had their sign reading: "God's plan is bigger than your plan," which I suppose is supposed to be consolation when your plans crash and burn. Another rendition could be "God is totally callous to your plan." Or one could challenge there even being a plan (or, of course, there even being a God).
The anthropomorphizing of God is fascinating to me. Humans make plans and carry them forward (in hopes of fruition), so God must do the same. I am equally fascinated by the ceiling and limitations of our imagination. For example, you cannot imagine a color you've never seen before. A sense you've never perceived. Those born blind, dream in only the senses they experience. The closest one can give to the blind kid to describe color is metaphor ("[this thing you've never experienced] is like [this thing you've experienced] in this certain aspect"). The difference being, of course, we are humans describing God to other human, like two blind kids trying to explain color to one another. Or humans trying to explain the experience of having some perceptual capability another animal possesses that we humans might not even know about.
So here we are.
What to do?
While we wait, the heart keeps pumping blood and the lungs keep breathing oxygen.
Whatever we do, the heart keeps pumping blood that the lungs load with oxygen.
Until they don't.
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