If there is a God...

If there is a God,

this is where it might be possible notice.

This world God might have made from overflowing reckless generosity

would not have to be.

And if God is as big as we imagine he would be

in order to be God,

we might not expect to catch him peeking around the moon

or to trip over him in the living room.

We would expect God to be the ground reality

of all being, which could feel to us

like he did not exist,

because we'd not be able to imagine without being first.

God's activity might even look like natural processes.

We would experience them like we experience

rivers and valleys or chickens and eggs.

We might not know which came first.

We would be subject

to the contingencies of human being

but we might glimpse God in the counterintuition of forgiveness

or the unexpectedness of beauty.