It seems that God continually chooses the most unqualified to do his work. ~ Madeleine L'Engle, Novelist The work of God it seems to me is not about some kind of holy living. It's not about someone's prescribed righteousness. It's not about moral rules. It has nothing to do with saving people from hell or even from themselves. There are of course endless ideas about God. Whole religions and theological doctrines have been built upon those ideas. Some of those ideas come from various sacred texts: the Bible, the Torah, the Bhagavad Gita, the Koran, and others. But whatever your thoughts or beliefs about God may be, if they don't begin and center in and end in love, then they seem to me to be little more than attempts at strained piety or becoming holier-than-thou. It is not in the protection of ourselves that God's work is done. It is not in making sure we have the right beliefs. It is not in fooling ourselves that we fully know God and
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