The more we know and love God, the more we realize that the awesome Creator is our friend. This friendship leads us increasingly into the evidence of the friendly universe. What a difference it makes to live this way, even for moments or brief stretches of time!
What answer to the question “Who am I?” establishes truth in your core identity, makes any remaining craziness peripheral and much easier to deal with, and opens up enhanced beauty and goodness for your contribution to sanity in this world?
Physically, we start as a one-celled zygote. Mentally, we start in complete ignorance. Why should we expect our physical and mental development to give us advanced standing in our spiritual journey?
There is a spiritual reality in human experience that can be expressed in many ways: by who we are, what we do, and what we say. Noun phrases are useful, but “the siblinghood of humankind” hasn’t caught on . . . .