finding God...

I read PostSecret weekly and have three of their books. I'm sure I've blogged about them before... "PostSecret is an ongoing community art project where people mail in their secrets anonymously on one side of a homemade postcard." I always thought about sending a post card. I wonder sometimes when people have their postcard published... is it the idea that it's published and they are releasing something they had kept inside or is it the idea that it's published and someone might figure out they wrote it? Is sharing a secret enough? Or is it who you share it with?

The blog posts secrets that cover love, religion, death, family, friends... they run the gamut. Today one postcard said, "Dear God, help me find you again." It seems simple enough... a prayer I would think a lot of people have prayed. The debate has come in the e-mails after it was posted.

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God isn't the one who is lost; we all are. God is where He always is... we need to stop trying to "find God" and instead rid ourselves of the things that we use to hide from God.

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I was so deeply offended that someone would assume that it is one's fault that they feel void of God's presence. It is the worst thing to be told when you are so desperately trying to feel something that once seemed to be ever present, and then one morning is just gone.

I don't think the writer thought God was lost. I think the postcard was acknowledging they were lost... lost without God. At the same time, I recognize I didn't write it so I have no idea what they meant by it. As much as I love the PostSecret project, I keep hoping we'll have someone in real life to share our secrets with... We wouldn't need PostSecret if we all had someone to tell... to be honest with.