One Life and One Life and One Life


​The Counting of Lost Lives
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​Imagine that the whole of the universe has a Life of its own.  Imagine that all things are part of this whole but also that the whole is more than the sum of its parts.  The whole is a consciousness, a mind, a heart, a soul.  The whole is the soul of the universe.  It is God.  What makes God God is not that God loves all but that God loves each.  For God each being, each one, is unique and incomparable.  When God counts, God says “one” and “one” and “one.”   And when a life is lost, the loss is shared by God, one life at a time, each life at a time.  God is, in Whitehead's phrase, a "fellow sufferer who understands."  God, too, has lost lives.  (Jay McDaniel)