O! You better watch out!

My understanding of the Christian Easter proclamation is that the connection with God is always available, that even death cannot break it. That’s comforting to a point until you read the fine print of the convenant: although the connection is always available, it is optional, subject to human volition to choose awareness or not. When God becomes dead to human experience, it is not God that has died; it is the awareful, intentional connection that has terminated. Granted, it may be difficult to determine the termination of something that never started, but it remains a problem of connectivity rather than an absence of the something that is everything. I’m guessing that J. Fred Coots and Haven Gillespie weren’t intending to be theological when they wrote, “Santa Claus Is Coming to Town”, but the words convey in their own way the intimate nature of our relationship with God. “He knows if you’ve been bad or good, so be good for goodness sake!” This analogy falls apart, of course, because it identifies a person occupying time and space, albeit with supernatural powers, and I hope that I’ve already developed a sound argument for why that image of God is so severely limited as to be obsolete. It does give pause to wonder, however, how important it may be to our inevitable destiny to work on making the connection as strong as it can possibly be in this experience we call life. What we learn to experience now may serve to keep the connection alive in the future.