Rev. Vanessa Titang

Tag: God is love

  • The Sentient are Made to Feel, a prayer

    The Sentient are Made to Feel, a prayer

    * a joint prayer for those hurting, and for those hardened in these fearful times.



    How do you save the world
    Without your heart breaking?
    How do you care for the world
    With your heart breaking?
    How do you jump in to save another
    Without feeling harm?
    How do you human without hurt?
    Is it possible?
    Should it even be possible?
    This ache of empathy
    Is essential
    To being.

    The sentient are made to feel
    — sense that interconnects us to each other,
    A gift that makes us feel for each other,
    With hearts beating
    So comes pleasure, so comes pain,
    And so comes responsibility.
    Even should your heart be hardened,
    May it break so it’s soft underneath may be moved,
    To care for and about another,
    Another being,
    Like or unlike
    You.

    Sentient being,
    You were made to feel,
    Made to care,
    Sentient being
    May empathy be
    The sacred practice
    Of your soul;

    May it be so,

    Amen,

    Ashe

  • Infinitely Creating

    Spirit is love
    Spirit is All,
    All is Love.

    Everything happens for reasons
    All of which
    We cannot see
    cannot understand,
    cannot comprehend,
    Within the event.

    This
    is infinite creation,
    Everything is in flux;
    Spirit is never “done”.

    Spirit is change;
    Spirit is creativity;
    Spirit is balancing infinite infinities,

    But first Spirit is Love
    And thus creates;
    Creates, grows, and balances creation,
    Infinitely.

  • P A T R I O T +

    P A T R I O T +

    If I
    Had been fit, at the time
    After 9/ 11,
    would I have lived up
    to my own values fully?
    Or needed to force-fit my vessel into an 8-bit camo suit,
    That compromised MY personal soul mission;
    To be what everyone else at the time saw to be the only version of
    A “real” “Patriot”?
    Likely.

    Instead
    Chubby, brainy, MS “rewiring” me
    Found MY real patriotism+ ;
    Finding Real in the
    Meaning behind red, white, & blue;
    And the spectral black-white that lay just
    Below the service .
    And I found my personal freedom
    In, of, for and through me.
    –As a sister, a daughter,
    a friend, a lover,
    a mother,
    A “No one’s free until everybody’s free”,
    Social justice advocating
    Flower child,
    Love worshipping
    Mystic,
    And Spiritual freedom fighting
    Harriet, Fannie Lou, Ida B., and MLK Jr. emulating
    Patriot+.

    1.7.2023 (revised 1.14.2023)