Broken gods

"You are gods." Blasphemy? No, those mysterious words from Psalm 82 and quoted by Jesus in the Gospel of John point to a holy longing deep in our hearts, telling us that we were created for more. "Imagine that you were to wake up tomorrow to discover that, by some miracle, you had become a god overnight," writes Dr. Gregory Popcak. "Not THE God--omnipresent, all-knowing, all-powerful--but a god in the classic sense. That is to say, you woke to find that you were perfect, immortal, utterly confident in who you are, where you were going in life, and how you were going to get there. It might…