resolutions

My son has a rather unique
idea of
relationship with
theory regarding
God.

I don't contradict anything he believes to be true about God.  I don't tell him anything I believe to be true about God.  We don't go to church together, nor do we read the Bible or the Torah or the Koran together. 

But he has this
idea of
relationship with
theory regarding
God.

He tells me about God.  About what God tells him.  About what he feels in his heart to be the truth.  And I listen.

I never contradict him.  Or tell him what other people believe.  All I ask is that he shares his beliefs with me when he feels moved to do so and request that if anyone tells him that what he believes is false that he tell them to go shove it.  In gentler terms, of course.  But I don't want him to feel that what he thinks that God is telling him is wrong.  Because the stuff he says God tells him?  Is pretty damned mindblowing.  Or, not damned.  I think that's probably a poor word choice.

Jacob's basic theory is that God is the energy present in the whole wide universe.  The energy that our souls are made of, the energy that makes the grass grow, the energy that keeps the planets spinning and the universe expanding.  And here on Earth, every thing that we do and feel contributes to the energy that is God.  And if we do and feel good things, God is able to send good energy back our way.  If we do and feel shitty things, the shittiness comes back to us.  In order for there to be a healthy and loving Earth, there has to be a  healthy and loving God.  In order for there to be a healthy and loving God, there has to be a healthy and loving Earth.  Each one makes the other. 

He uses those words to describe it, and he shows what he means by linking his hands in a twisty yin yang ball thing.

He came up with that- rather- "God told him that".  A little over a year ago.  When he was three.
And I think it's genius.  So that's what God is in our house.  Because it's
better than
as sensible as
just as believable as
anything I've ever heard regarding the subject.

Jake has a bevy of ways to talk to God.  He says that God talks directly to him, but there are also a few "dead people" who are go-betweens.  Sometimes Jake calls them "spirits" or "ghosts" or "angels", but sometimes they are just "the dead people".  When I asked who they were, he said that they (and I quote) "aren't people exactly, but voices that make up his subconcisous", that "it's easiest to hear God when you listen with your subconscious so all the other stuff in the world doesn't get in the way".

Okay.
Sure.
Run with it.
Why not?

Last week Jake waited up late for me to come home from rehearsal and asked me to come up to his room.  He asked me to sit down and he held my hands and he said that we have to start taking excellent care of each other and the people around us because things are going to get real weird because God is dead.

Then he gave me a hug and told me that things are going to be okay.  That everything always turns out to be okay, but sometimes it takes a really long time for things to work out.

He explained to me the next day that the dead people told him that God isn't totally dead, but the good parts of him are dying.  That there wasn't enough love in the world and people aren't taking care of others both inside and outside of their families and we all aren't taking care of nature and the energy that we are making on Earth is destroying the energy that makes God.  And once that energy turns bad, things get really scary here.  And up there.  Out there.  Where ever. 

The dead people told him that we can turn things around by being kind to one another and taking care of the Earth.  That we can make better energy here and with God by doing and feeling better things.  And they would appreciate if we helped out making the Godenergy a more pleasant place to be, because that's where a person's energy goes after we die.

So. 

Whether you prescribe to the testament of Jacob or not, maybe do what you can to make things a little bit better?
Because my poor boy's heart is broken over all this. 
And I don't know what to tell him to make it all better.
Whether it's the word of God or the overactive imagination of a little boy, it seems like a good thing for us all to work on.