Alex

Have you ever thought of God. Like really really though about Him- no wait see that's my point, how do we know that God is a Him. Maybe Gods a Her, of hey maybe Gods not either!

This is the other conversation we had in the car on the way up to camp. I am big into the whole women's roles in the church- why you may ask? Well that's a whole nother conversation then huh. Well Ok. So we were driving aimlessly somewhere in the middle of Idaho. And I came up with a question. See, the thing about me is, if I like you and I trust you, I am going to ask you questions about a lot of things, and not just what brand of toothpaste do you use. You see, Cody doesn't mind when I ask him stuff, well at least I don't think he doesn't mind. So I asked him " What does God look like?" Now I know Cody wouldn't know the exact answer because nobody really knows, nobody's met God that I know of, there all dead. Then we just talked about what we thought God looked like. And we came to the conclusion that we don't know what God looks like, God could be a girl for all we know! I liked the thought of God being a girl, maybe that's because I AM a girl, but hey when you think about it, you never know. And I know some of you are saying, but man was created in Gods image. Well maybe it was an image in his Head, huh! Ya never know. And God didn't write Genesis, so there. Maybe its just a story to explain things. I'm not God so I wouldn't know.

Then we decided we should come up with a name for both a girl and a boy, sense we don't know if God is a girl or a boy. We thought for a while then Megan said. "Alex!" So then Alex was born. Personally I love it. Its gives you a fresh look into who "Alex/God" really is. Now, some of you are thinkin, man you are crazy! But it makes sense to me, not picking a gender and leaving it as Alex. Its simple. And we never really know until we die if "Alex/God" is a boy or a girl. And hey maybe "Alex/God" ( man its hard not to just say "he") doesn't resemble a human, maybe "it" looks like a feeling, invisible, Love.

And I think we like to think that we have created God, and that we know who God is and "its" very being. But the truth is we don't know. Only "God/Alex" knows. That's one of the mysteries in life, and for a thinker its very hard to grasp that I'll never know. But for now I think I am just going to leave it as "Alex". Because I think that's the way its meant to be. Not male nor female, just Love.