I still think that one of humanity's greatest flaws (and of course, my own) is our inability to comprehend, or even imagine, the sheer goodness of God.

Because we cannot comprehend God's goodness, we live out of a pardigm that can be incredibly destructive.

William Law said:

"If your concept of God is radically false, the more devoted you are [to that God], the worse off you will be."

Do you get that?

Take the radically false view that God is angry, disappointed, or hates all the people you hate, and then add deep human devotion to this flawed view of God, and you have a pretty good understanding of why religious folks often damage other people, in the name of God.

Christian hatred, bigotry, intolerance and just simple mean-spiritedness are rampant; like a pandemic raging out of control.

What if we started, instead, to believe afresh in the beautiful, overwhelming, overarching, indescribable goodness of God?

And then, what if we devoted ourselves to that good God?

I love how Brian McLaren puts it:

"I believe that God is good. No thought I have ever had of God is better than God actually is. True, my thoughts - including any assumptions about what 'good' means - are always more or less inaccurate, limited, and unworthy, but I am still confident of this:

I have never overestimated how good God is because God's goodness overflows far beyond the limits of human understanding."

Ponder today the incredible, unimaginable, unlimited goodness of God. (I acknowledge that human evil always makes this difficult to do).

Live in that goodness.

You - and everyone around you - will be better off.