We have to change gears mentally when we speak to babies and small children. When you speak to small children you have to use simplified words and concepts. When you speak to babies, you may not even be using real words; you are communicating emotions to the baby through your voice tone even though the baby may not understand a single thing you say.

I wonder what it must be like for God when He speaks to us. If one were to attempt an illustration, we might think of the mind of God as being like Niagara Falls. In comparison the human mind might be compared to a faucet with the very slow drip. In order to speak to us, God would have to simplify His communication from the mighty flow of the Niagara to the very slow drip of the faucet.

Of course for the purposes of this illustration, you would have to make Niagara Falls much, much bigger. Bigger than the earth. Bigger than the solar system. Bigger than the Milky Way galaxy. Bigger than the universe. You would have to conceive of an infinite water fall, because everything about God is infinite. God has an infinite mind.

And in speaking to us God would somehow have to simplify from that infinite, rushing, roaring flow of water down to a single, slow drip.

I can’t think of a better way to close today’s mediation than to share with you two words of exhortation that I frequently express to myself. I have come to think of God as both the Perfect Mind and the Beautiful Mind. Here are the two exhortations. Never second guess the Perfect Mind. Always try to flow in harmony with the Beautiful Mind.