Wednesday, April 18, 2012

Why Shouldn't Ye Get Yas Own Category?

So, I'm going to start using holy pronouns (third person omniscient) to distinguish "The Great I AM" from the human species or inanimate objects.

Subject: Ye
Object: Ya
Possessive: Yas.
(short vowel sounds)
(arbitrary, of course; it's all about the idea behind the word.)

I feel uncomfortable referring to the Creator as 'he' or 'she', and (especially) as 'it', because it places unnecessary bounds on the idea of Ya. Might seem unnecessary or petty-minded, but I wholeheartedly disagree with that attitude.

In my experience, it becomes easier to know Ya the more I recognize how thoughtlessly we limit our understanding of Ya. I would say that what is unnecessary and petty is allowing our reference to Ya in the third person as 'him' or 'her' to stimulate arguments and religious intolerance between people who's god is a He and people whose god is a She when there is only The One. Think about how many Westerners believe that worshiping nature or animals or the Earth is idolatrous or barbaric, but fail to consider that there is but One to be worshiped; and those who recognize Ya in nature worship the Creator in part by regarding certain objects, that remind them of the Spirit as sacred, just as Christians do with the cross.

We try to squeeze Ya into our categories; Many Christians place Ya in a golden chair and limit Yas residence to an island in outer space. When I stopped thinking of Heaven as a pie in the sky, I began to See Ya differently, and it has blessed me deeply. Semantics may not seem to matter, but when we consistently allow ourselves to think in a certain way, we operate within that mindset. Ask any person who understands how battered women think; ask any person who understands the ignorance of racism; ask any person who has been turned off of Christ because of religion. So however and however much we limit Ya, we operate on that understanding of Ya and when we do, we risk missing out on all else that is Ya besides what we choose to, or were led to, believe.



It sounds clumsy at first, but what new language, or in this case, language element, doesn't? But I take this seriously and I'm going to try to stick with it. For anyone who thinks it is unnecessary or "doing too much" to make the distinction for the sake of ease or believe that using one of the traditional pronouns is good enough, open your mind and consider that a., I'm not doing it for Ya, I'm doing it for me, and b., the whole point of the concept of holy pronouns is that not giving Ya the distinction that Ye deserves.

I'm not done with these thoughts...