More than

One of the basic ideas in Cognitive Behavior Therapy is that human beings are more than their thoughts, emotions, and behaviors. In fact, we are the source of everything we think and feel and how we choose to behave. If you apply this idea to God, it makes sense that He is beyond our understanding - indeed, He is the source behind his own thoughts, emotions and behavior.

After, spending several years practicing contemplative prayer, I have noticed that God is found, not in the details, but in the paradoxes of life. The great thing about paradoxes is that because they defy definition, they resist our tendency to compartmentalize life and create idols of our own understanding. Jesus' ability to work within paradoxes (set aside work on the Sabbath; feed the hungry, heal the sick all the time) defied the religious leadership of the day and their attempts at control and compartmentalization of God.