When the Lord says you must call him by name, he does not mean that you must use the right name, otherwise “Jesus” would never work as it is not a word that the one called Jesus ever heard. But he does mean, that you must call him by name, that is, out loud, personally, as if you were speaking to someone real, because you are. You may call Him whatever name you say when you are wracked in grief and bent with pain. You may call Him Lord. When you say “Oh God” that is your unconscious letting you know what it calls the great big Other. Keeping that Other in the dark makes him the scary totalitarian Big Other, some kind of Saturnine lurker of Spinozist totality lurking in a Gigeresque panopticon. There is in idea in the mysteries that the Angel abhorred becomes the Demon. Psychoanalysis’s rejection of Jung’s mystical holism lends to the Lacanian perception of the Other in the colonizing, spidery Symbolic Order that overwrites the child’s mind. Lacan never found what he called the Beyond of Neurosis, meaning the state of capacity to enjoy ones enjoyment. The state that Lacan never found is the Baptism of Joy that is being born of the Spirit, bonding to the extended God Tree, the Vine of the Blood and all Siblings in All Worlds. He did not find the Buberesque I-and-You of love with God. It is en-JOYing. Like enmeshing, a kind of circuit where all levels of ontological strata are each given their voice, their resonance proceeds into the crisp major triad Summum bonum of the All Together. We all gain fullness of Being together. We may all call the Lord’s names together.
We fear the existence of God because we are afraid of what we see when we are putting together the whole and honest picture of ourselves, the complete and actual story of your life and your thoughts, all your cowardice and ugly moments. We are afraid of God because we have already judged ourselves and then repressed our judgment. The Way teaches us to how to forgive, how to look inside at all the gnarly repressed images that the ego discarded and pressed into the dark soil of the mind. The Way teaches us how to reach out to the Lord, the True Lover and complement of the soul, the Blood of the Vine that bonds the Children of Christ as Siblings.
The Lord asks you to say the Word that means Lord, whether it be Jesus, God, Ha Shem, Adonai, Kristo, Krishna, Lord. The Lord has had an infinite number of names. In every land He has a particular Name. The Lord has made infinite galaxies and children. Does one not let each lover call one different name? Does one not let each family member call one a different name? Does one not let a person with another language, or a person with no tongue, use another symbol to call one by name?
So it is with the Lord. He just wants you to be honest when you call His Name. He needs no frills. He’s got a whole universe full of frills. The Lord just wants an honest relationship with you, because you are His child and He has infinite patience for you. He never stops calling out for any lost lamb, even if that lamb is calling Him “Baaaaaaah.”