How I Experience God

“The power which I cannot explain or know or name I call God. God is not God’s name. God is my name for the mystery that looms within and arches beyond the limits of my being. When I pray to God, God’s answer comes to me from within, not beyond. God’s answer is yes, not to the specifics of my prayer but in response to my hunger for meaning and peace.”

~F. Forrester Church (1948-2009) Unitarian Universalist minister in NYC

While suffering from esophagal cancer before his death: “I look back without regrets, and I look forward without fear,” he told The New York Times in 2008. “I have never been more in the present.”