spread features artwork His Presence by Renee Dumont, USA
influence: 7th Day Adventist Church, Sabbath Keeper
and Prayer by Branislav Fabijanich, Croatia
influence: Christianity
Where Is God?
Where is God
Who always hides?
It is not enough with faith
With vague ideas
With cheap sermons
I want to feel God
I want to touch him with my soul,
To feel him in the strangeness,
To cuddle him in the ridiculous,
To breathe him in the horror.
Sometimes my soul escapes,
My tears wear out,
My lips close,
My mind becomes consumed,
All empties in an unfair echo,
And I feel lonely.
Where is God
Who always hides?
If only your sight were enough
I’d build a lofty altar with your image
Where my soul could take refuge
When the nothingness surprises me.
Why was I only me, not also you? What made me, me? Why was there all this tremendous suffering?
I could not understand how I could be happy for even an instant and yet know that somewhere, someone was being tortured, someone was dying alone and in pain. This baffled me: how could I be so callous? I saw that this was precisely why we can be so cruel. We have the capacity to close ourselves off to others. If anything needed an answer, this did. Where do I stop and you begin? What is the lie?
— Eva Kircz, Spain (birthplace: Holland)
influence: Hinduism, Buddhism, A Course in Miracles
(original influence: Judaism)