Oh- God- May 2026

That moment of surrender is not weakness. It is the only place where grace can actually enter the room.

If you are an atheist, a skeptic, or a “spiritual but not religious” person, you have still said it. When the car hydroplanes on the highway, you don’t shout, “Oh, secular humanism, help me now!” Oh- God-

It is the sound of our ego cracking open, just for a second, to admit that we are not in control. That moment of surrender is not weakness

We cry out to “God” in these moments because the phrase is a vessel for a feeling too large for our chests. It is a cry for a witness. We don’t need a deity to intervene; we just need the universe to acknowledge that this is happening . We need to mark the moment. We need to tell the void, “I see you, and I am afraid.” When the car hydroplanes on the highway, you

Here is the strange comfort I have found in the phrase “Oh, God.”