The Monotheist and "I"[copied from my old wordpress]
Does life mean anything? Does suffering mean anything?
(I call God "He" not because I believe he is a man, obviously he is outside of gender, but as a unambiguous signifier of his singleness.)
God is present in the images he made of himself, and you contact God daily through those images.
GEN 1:26 "Then God said, "Let us make humankind in our image, in the likeness of ourselves; and let them rule over the fish in the sea, the birds in the air, the animals, and over all the earth, and over every crawling creature that crawls on the earth."
In the likeness of ourselves, he says. He says and it is.
We were designated as caretakers of Earth, we were made as God to be God in the real.
God is your fingers in the hair of someone you give your adoration, and God is what you feel when you are crying when praying. God is your bedroom because you made it, and God is your writing, because you wrote it.
GEN 1:28-31 "God blessed them: God said to them, "Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish in the sea, the birds in the air and every living creature that crawls on the earth." Then God said, "Here! Throughout the whole earth I am giving you as food every seed-bearing plant and every tree with seed-bearing fruit. And to every wild animal, bird in the air and creature crawling on the earth, in which there is a living soul, I am giving as food every kind of green plant." And that is how it was. God saw everything that he had made, and indeed it was very good."
Create, then fill that creation with life. We are creations of love, conception is an act of love. Love besets love. Fill love with life! Feel love every moment of the day. All emotions are love if you want them to be. Hatred is because you love something that cannot be loved.
Even God is not objective. Morality is not real, but our perception of everything has a moral undertone. Sin is personal, if you don't believe you have sinned, you have not sinned. God saw that it was good. Us as his image see that everything is good, just as we see a beautiful sunset on an evening walk.
Image as its original meaning, a real physical depiction of something you cannot see as it is. Draw a picture of love. Sculpt love. You can try, and get close, but you cannot do it.