Rev. Vanessa Titang

Tag: theology

  • SPIRIT is LOVE: Visiting My Process Theology

    SPIRIT is LOVE: Visiting My Process Theology

    February 6th, 2023

    My theology is of

    Panentheism
    ” (“all in God”, from the Greek πᾶν, pân, ‘all’, ἐν, en, ‘in’ and Θεός, Theós, ‘God’)[1] is the belief that the divine intersects every part of the universe and also extends beyond space and time. ” (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panentheism)

    *SPIRIT/God[ess]/Olorun/Allah/YHWH… (different names/ “languages”, but all the same ultimate source in reference, perceived from different angles of the same divine prism).
    –Here I will refer to as “SPIRIT”

    SPIRIT…
    *… is love
    *…is a force/energy and entity
    *…is creativity/creation
    *…is change
    *…is in all, and all the universe is inside, and yet there is still more SPIRIT outside of this, in infinite capacity
    *… loves ALL creation
    *…is omnibenevolent
    *… is omnipresent (in all and around all), but NOT omnipotent in the way most assume:
    As a good parent, SPIRIT cares for but also gives free will and room for their children to be independent and find the residual and unending presence of SPIRIT within themselves. This is imperfect in action on the part of the child, but that is perfect and was meant to be. All that comes to pass is a learning moment, not for when SPIRIT is gone, but for when WE lose our way to SPIRIT. That separation is where what we know as “evil” may take seed, and unlearned from and unrecognized can take over. That too is a lesson, once we can WAKE to it and seek again the TRUTH of an unconditional, selfless, universal LOVE.)

    *SPIRIT LOVES.

    *THE MEANING, PURPOSE, AND FUEL OF EXISTENCE IS LOVE.

    1 John 4:16
    “So we have known and believe the love that God has for us.

    God is love, and those who abide in love abide in God, and God abides in them.”

  • Miraculous – A Theology

    Miraculous – A Theology

     ~ SHE OF LETTERS 

    This existence is one,
    All is connected,
    You, me, creatures, objects, great and small
    The beginning and end,
    Entwined with us all
    Out of the nothing, the something formed,
    With innate innocence,
    A peaceful being of neutrality,
    Uninfluenced by established humanity,
    This is the beginning of each little galaxy,
    Inside another,
    The endless universe,
    That composes all,
    The value free existence
    Neither good nor evil,
    Just, just;
    This is all,
    But then enters complexity,
    Of competing beings,
    Vying for sustained existence,
    In a space of resource finitude,
    This is millions upon millions of life forms,
    Organic material,
    Forces of nature,
    Air, water, fire, earth,
    Coalescing upon and as a miraculous heavenly body,
    In an endless sea of space,
    Thus this is home,
    We,
    We are,
    And we are
    home.

    (Originally posted at https://sheofletters.wordpress.com/2019/12/03/miraculous-a-theology/ )

    I wrote this poem in my first year as an Masters of Divinity student, prior to the month of intensive courses in Chicago. I grew throughout the first semester, and the winter break gave me the opportunity to really reflect on this, largely through one of my favorite past times — writing poetry. i posted this on my persona blog, and reflect back on this often. I realize in the poetry I wrote more about my beliefs in the cosmos, and ultimate existence than I had initially thought I did.