The Cloud of Unknowing

I liked this speech a lot, very inspirational. Just forget about everything and let everything be, give yourself to God. "Lift up your heart to God with a meek stirring of love; and intend God himself and none of his created things." We are always having things on our minds and are always doing activities when letting them be and take "no heed" of them is what pleases God. Good example from my experience was that I recently got out of a relationship and it was 11 month long relationship. I out so much time and effort and I gave my heart to this person. I really thought this person was the one for me, we did everything together and shared some many things in common. Things went down hill and we had broken up, after that I really wanted a change and I wanted to build a better relationship with God. I'm catholic and I was baptized catholic, when I was younger I used to go to church every Sunday and I went to catholic school as well. But of course I didn't really understand a lot of things because I was young. Anyways back to what I was saying, since this new relationship with God made me realize that my ex was just another created thing made by God. I know that by letting go of that relationship was just an experience and that person wasn't for me.

"When you first begin it, you find just a darkness and as it were, a cloud of unknowing." This is a good analogy, its hard for a lot of people to just let go what they want or desire and focus on their relationship with God. Building a relationship with him may take time and take as long as you want. I know that my relationship with him is growing more and more each day. "Just as this cloud of unknowing is above you, between you and your God, so you must put a cloud of forgetting beneath you, between you and all creatures that were ever made." God doesn't exclude anything or anyone, but for us to let go of things that don't matter for example money. This is a hard one because money is a big thing in this world. Money is just a thing and its a great obstacle.

I like how it says that he cannot answer you how to think upon God because we have to do it ourselves. The kingdom of God is within us and we shall find it. Doing so by seeking, discovering, enter the kingdom of God and grow with God, build a stronger, trusting relationship with him. "Let go of this everywhere and this is something, in exchange for this nowhere and this nothing." God will be pleased, he loves you and he is our father.