Why would a five-year-old wonder if God was blue? Guessing the answer means thinking your way into a child's point of view.

   Thank God that I asked my youngest grandson why he inquired.

   "Because the sky is blue," he replied, uttering volumes about the image he must have conjured of an azure-skinned God ruling from a complimentary-colored sky. 

    More truth bubbles from little kids than from most adults. This is strikingly true of children aged two to six. Listen sincerely, rather than dismissively, to these recently-born people. At five, my grandson is a genius. By ten he will (as did all of us) lose many of his dreamy ways of being. 

   Except that we adults still imagine that God is up there somewhere, don't we? Don't we pray to the heavens & imagine God hanging out above the clouds?

   Some also insist on personifying God as "he" (consider Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel depiction.) Concrete thinkers demand rectangular answers to elusively oval questions, "Where is God? What does God look like? How can people hear words from a disembodied source? they ask, as if it could all be explained on Power Point slides. 

   Then, we remember. Caregivers can engage the spirit of the patient before them & pray in that direction. And why not pray into your own heart since God lives there as well?

   The Apostle John offered the best definition, "God is light…God is love," he wrote in his first letter.   

   In the first century, people yearned for God in human form. Perhaps, that is why they found comfort (as do we today) in the story of Love's enfleshment in Jesus.

   Is God blue? Since Love is every color & no color the answer must be yes. 

-Reverend Erie Chapman 

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