Gennaro Brooks-Church

Caroline Horton
English Protestant upbringing, currently has a baby.

I think God is an energy. It’s the energy of the universe. It’s love and light, it’s in everything and everyone. My sense of it changed when I had my daughter because she felt like a gift from God. Then it really became clear for me that God was love, light and energy. And she was a little ball of this. Her birth was a miracle, because babies come from somewhere, they don’t just appear from nothing.

They must be formed from energy or something. It was like the Creation, literally. God is creation, and we also create. We keep creating with babies, going back to that initial energy each time. I do believe that you can’t destroy energy, it just keeps re-forming. I’m not sure about re-incarnation, though. Intellectually I like it, but it’s a bit beyond what I can grasp. Maybe my energy is what continues.

My family wasn’t very religious. I went to the Protestant Church of England for schools and festivals, like Christmas and harvest festivals. We had religious studies at school. It was very dull, very uninteresting, very…putrid. They would tell me, “You be a good girl or Jesus won’t love you!” So of course, I wasn’t a good girl. But you know, I had a really good time.