Universe is God’s self-portrait. Octavia E. Butler

So, looking at it, what is God like?..

Funny

Sensitive, even sentimental

Determined

Resilient

Resourceful

Cruel

Generous

Quiet

Fragile

Beautiful

Magical

Like red patches of evening light on the smooth trunks of the young maples. Like a soundless flight of the barn owl in the woods at dusk. Like the soft carpet of moss and lichen on the solitary boulder. Like songbirds flying south. Like red maple leaves falling on the layers of last year’s fallen leaves. Like …