Word of the Lord

Nathaniel and I got into a conversation about 'the Lord'. I knew it was going to happen when the UPS guy came into our room starting to talk about, 'He's going to come.....Abraham....Shalom something? in Hebrew'. Nathaniel is Jewish you see and although he doesn't force his religion onto me in our daily association's, this occassion was certainly unusual in that he didn't stop the UPS guy from going on his end of days synopsis preach.
The meaning of the word 'Lord' was brought up by none other than, 'me', later, curious to know what he meant when using the word. I asked if 'Lord' meant a person? 'No', it meant something like a being, a cosmic force that humbles us when we contemplate the powerful forces in the universe. This was intriguing but I wondered why this profound sensation that was mentioned and that I have felt before had to be equated with a word such as 'Lord', it still didn't puncture my reasoning. The conversation ended quite abruptly when I pursued the plausibility of not needing a mere word to associate with this cosmic entity, whatever it was. I pitched the word 'energy' to him as a possible starter for a dialogue with little bounce back.
I was left feeling unsatisfied. Again a potentially penetrating conversation with a practiced religious person, conditioned in a methodology and practice surrounding a religion not like my own (that which I was brought up in and have since dispensed myself from) whereupon I was curious to learn from in a open-minded way. No new revelations revealed or opened. What a let down. No surprises.
Later, when I was left to myself, I got to thinking about the need for humanity to name this transcendent quality when we sense our smallness in the big scheme of things. When we ponder the greater, the vast, and are left with no real resolve. It seems to me to be one of our biggest deceptions. That we feel the need to put a name on that which we cannot fathom or describe. It stings tragedy. A catastrophic joke pulled over us. I feel a sort of pity when people talk about 'God' or 'Lord' and needing to use such specific, defining words to hint at the creative power behind the universe. Probably because this is utterly lacking in me. I have no need to sum up this ultimate unknowing with a simple word. It seems utterly useless and not at all reminscent of the experience one feels while in that 'humbled' state. Only perhaps in a paragraph or novel could one maybe suggest or elude to what your personal experience of this transcendence was like, but for God's sake don't belittle it all by giving me a word that you can pitch everytime you are referring to the almighty force penetrating all things.
Futility reeks constant on this plateau.