A few months ago, I wrote about musician David Bowie's song, Starman.  When I heard it again last night, I thought about it again.  What strikes me about it is 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."  This is so much, it seems, like us and 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?  Although countless religions have tried to quantify or reduce God into human terms, to render him into a package to which people can more readily relate, none do so perfectly.  Whether it is the Krishna of Hinduism, the Sosyant of Zororasterianism, the Jesus of Christianity, or countless others, as the Hindus call them, avatars, of the divine, the being (God) whom these efforts 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 attempts, 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 because we have a point to which to look for some level of ultimate understanding, and we can be awed, and humbled, that we are not so smart and mighty that we can suppose that we know all things.  Besides, how would we know we do?

     We'd have to blow our minds.