WHY God is so happy to be Queer

One of the advantages of thinking Queerly about God, is to know more about God than we, or anyone else. were ever taught. We know there are more stories to tell about God because we know about all of our stories that weren't told for thousands of years. By keeping us off the page, straight-religious authorities have kept lots of God off the page, too.

As Queer folk we know that every statement about God has a possible alternative meaning. Think about it. That's not only for our own good as LGBTQ folks, that's something good for the whole world! Everyone on the planet can use another angle, another way of looking at God, and God, when you think about it, must be thrilled to know that we aren't limiting God to inflexible two-dimensionality. God gets to be creative, playful, inventive, instinctive. Queer. Think of the next breeze that blows as God heaving a Divine sigh of relief at being allowed to stretch out and be infinitely fabulous.

Update on Thursday, July 26, 2012 at 02:43PM by Queer Spiritual Counseling

"Would the world ever have been made if its maker had been afraid of making trouble?
Making life means making trouble."

                                     ~ George Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion

What love DOES have to do with it

We need to love humanly in order to love and to feel loved by God. Jewish tradition, even with a God we can't see or touch, instructs us to use all the aspects of our physical loving selves as points of reference for loving God. Christian tradition teaches us about an incarnate God who understands first-hand the workings of our human hearts and bodies. Many other spiritual traditions give their God(s) human shape and personality, telling stories of their erotic interest and interaction with human beings.

The truth we should distill from this is that our Queer, corporeal, and carnal identities are the keys to our knowledge of the Divine Eternal. By second guessing our impulse to love and our human capacity for desire we disempower ourselves as worshipers of God.

I don't believe God wants us to check our flesh and blood at the door when we enter God's presence. Our bodies reap wisdom through all our senses, and that wisdom makes us better worshipers, better lovers of God. There may exist a realm in which engagement with God is best achieved through disembodied spirituality, but this isn't it.

Share a moment of blessing with God. Bless God for making you the loving and yearning person you are.

Update on Monday, November 28, 2011 at 08:06PM by Queer Spiritual Counseling

“Fragile I am not. Affection is a pressure I can bear.”

                   Eleanor in The Lion in Winter by James Goldman