RuPaul

I was having a talk with my husband last night about God (the idea and the post) and the conversation went something like this:

"I was trying to write a post today about what God is and what the word God means to me, and I found I wanted to tell everyone what God is not."

"When I was working my second and third steps I had that problem too, wanting to say what God is not. So I just wrote down 50 things that God wasn't and got it all out and then I could write down 3 or 4 things God is."

"That's a good idea. Maybe I'll try that. That could be my next post. Maybe it will help me work out what to call my higher power. I was feeling today that maybe I'm not comfortable using the word God to describe my beliefs after all."

"Yeah, I had a hard time coming to use the word God too. But it just got too complicated to try to explain myself to people all the time -- like I call myself an atheist because I don't believe in the God of the Bible, but I have this higher power that doesn't fit the common conception of God but serves the same function in my life as other people's God but... It's easier to just call it God than explain all the time."

"Yes. I need a shorter name for what I believe. I was thinking of using The Divine instead of God, but that's still long and could be confusing. And it has to be The Divine, not just Divine. Somehow Divine makes me think of a six foot tall black female impersonator."

"You mean RuPaul."

"Yes! RuPaul! That's who I'm thinking of. But why does Divine make me think of RuPaul?"

"I don't know. But Divine Brown was the prostitute that was caught giving oral sex to Hugh Grant."

"Oh, right. Yes. Maybe Divine is not a good name for my higher power after all."

Hugh Grant and Divine Brown