If it were true that all things are God, as pantheism preached, God is now peeling an apple with my hands, which are actually yours. And he’s hanging laundry somewhere, changing the oil in a car, and feeding chickens who are also goddesses in a barn, because there’s nothing in this world, no matter how small or gross it may seem, that’s not God. God is the fly and God is the sparrow that eats it. There is a gentle breeze that surpasses the heat of the noon nap, and that is God. God sings through the seagull crossing the sky and groans at the mouths of adulterers who spin around on the bed of a hotel room after hours. God is the stranger calling to offer you a cheaper electricity rate. To treat back injury, the doctor recommended 20 laps a day is God swimmer. And the fisherman who is now hollowing out the hailfish is actually hollowing out God. The young son who sneaks a cigarette and comes home late is God..
Just as a cat or a spider is born, every child is born God is born. It’s not that every spider is a goddess, it’s that they’re all the same God. Also, the lemon tree leaf is God, because God is more than just everywhere, but all parts. He is God even when the flame of the lighter is extinguished, and God after the cigarette is smoked. It is the deceased God that you went to offer your condolences to his widow, this does not mean that God has necrotic areas, but death is also god like other manifestations of life.
Water is God and hail is God and snow is God. And it is God who darkens when it gets dark, just as it is God, not the Sun, who rises at dawn.. Mars is God and the Moon is God and newspaper ink is God. You cannot touch an object that is not a god. The pressure cooker is God and the coffee pot is God and the tea bag is God and the radio on or off is God. When you go to bed, it is God who goes to bed and God who dreams., not you, not you, who is no one but Allah. It was the lightning God who woke you up in the middle of the night, a confused or frightened God, we have no idea.