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Writer's pictureThomas Tittmann

Your god is too small...

Updated: 3 days ago


First of a 3-post series prepared for an evening for sharing our art forms with fellow members of Multicultural Solidarity of Long Island Diversity Friendship Listening Circles.



10/23/24

Waking up with these thoughts…

“Your god is too small”...


It was required reading in my sophomore year at Iona College in New Rochelle, NY.



As a student at a Catholic college I was influenced by the 1967 Summer of Love’s call to


“turn on, tune in and drop out”…


As a result, in the Fall of 1968, as I was beginning my junior year, I told the Dean what he could do with his school and his religion and rode off to look for America…in my 1965 VW Bus that I bought with the tuition money I demanded be returned. 


Since that day, I’ve been looking outside and inside myself for “god as I understand god” - as AA wisely states…


My too-small God has expanded…


GENDER: The first limitation that fell away is “his” gender. god is no longer just male.


OCCUPATION: Next, god’s occupation: no longer a policeman waiting to get me if I stepped out of line…


RELIGION: Next, god’s religion: no longer just Catholic with a capital “C”. And is also "no religion too" as John Lennon imagined.


NATIONALITY: Next, no longer only white and American…


LOCATION: More recently, no longer just outside me…EVERYWHERE!


Today, I’m living in awareness of the intention of the Namaste greeting:


“god in me recognizes the god in you”


And in these memorable song words:


“Looking in the mirror, I love you sweet god…”

--Ong Namo - Snatum Kaur


AND…


My emerging desire for a personal relationship with God is being met by my growing awareness that God is in everything I see: plants and rocks and animals…and, yes, in each of you…

When I remember this, I am no longer lonely…



I had the pleasure of enjoying Snatum at Kundalini Yoga of Long Island and in NYC at a workshop with her book "Original Light." I was first introduced to her at Echo Park here in West Hempstead, NY. During our kundalini yoga classes, Elena our teacher played her in every class. During my home practice, I entered her name into the search engine so she would accompany me. Those searches led to recommendations about similar artists... ...and my musical soul took flight...



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