Do You Ever Miss God?

[ErikB]

I define God as compassion, the antidote to distress. It's a union of empathy and sympathy, and self-compassion is about understanding yourself and caring enough about yourself to alleviate your own distress. Self-compassion allows you to never miss God or to feel that someone else is exploiting your beliefs because you're in control. Simple as that. People who believe in anyone else's definition of God seem to be worrying too much about how they're behaving, thinking, and so on. Sounds pretty stressful, definitely something I'd prefer to miss out on.