Hard won

I suppose people have searched for meaning, for support, for religion, since they had time apart from filling their stomachs or keeping the fire burning. 

Those small moments of contemplation, navel gazing or fire gazing, or maybe just looking within, are the bait that draws us to gods. 

Omnipotent beings who do not have to struggle to stay alive.

It is the relief that comes when there is no relief. That belief that somewhere, some day there is, or will be a place without hunger, worry, fear of being eaten, assaulted, or frozen, or any of the other of those worldly things that assail us here on earth.

And because everything else in this world is hard won, this god must be too, so we created a jealous god, a demanding god, a human god requiring us to jump through hoops to please it.  Because? Because everything else in this world is hard won and difficult, so God must be too.

But what if this god is everything? Not just all powerful, but all beings? What if god does not sit in the sky watching us, but lives in our cells, in the atoms of everything that is?  

What if we physically come from a power just as directly as our children come from our DNA?

Not soul-y connected, but physically. Deep inside every part of us, waiting to be recognized, ready to aid us in ways most of us have never dreamed of, lies a god we will never understand. A god just as real as our hearts and hands, but infinitely more powerful and complicated.

An ineffable power that evolved a universe, watching its children grow and learn and live, what a hard won concept that would be.