While driving the other day, I heard musician David Bowie's Starman.  What struck me most about the song was its chorus, which talks about the Starman, lurking and hovering over us on the planet, maybe wanting to come down, but thinking that if he does, it will "blow our minds."  As I reflected on this, I thought, again, of the enduring puzzle of God.  So many of us wonder about God, wonder whether a God exists and, if he (or she) does, what is he like?  What would it be like to see this God, to interact with this "being" whom we think might be lurking and hovering over us?  If we saw him, would he really blow our minds?
     If God is any kind of almighty being, and we were to see him, he probably would blow our minds.  We likely would not know what to do.  How does one deal with a being whose power and grace far exceed our own?  This challenge explains why so many religions have tried to quantify or reduce God into human terms, to render him into a package to which people can more readily relate.  Nonetheless, whether this package is the Krishna of Hinduism, the Sosyant of Zororasterianism, the Jesus of Christianity, or countless other, as the Hindus call them, avatars, of the divine, the being (God) whom these packages present remains shrouded in mystery.  People still cannot understand God fully.
     Of course, given my starting point, I find it easy to commend Jesus as the most meaningful of these packages, but as anyone who has read the New Testament knows, even Jesus is a person of befuddlement and intrigue.  As he should be.  Regardless of how we try to reduce God to into terms we can understand, he will remain God.  For this, we can be grateful as well as awed.  We can be grateful that we are not moving through a pointless universe.  And we can be awed that this is true.