My Theology Today - A Starting Point

These are some of my basic beliefs today. Faith is the ability to believe and perceive. I have faith and believe that an eternal, infinite power and presence, called many different things,…well, it just is. It exists. For simplicity, I call it God; some people call it creative energy, Spirit, or Source. Realizing that the name can never really do the invisible Presence and Power any justice whatsoever, its character and qualities go beyond naming; but nevertheless, I believe it can be experienced and I believe I do experience it in a real way. The experience of God for me is what keeps me on a spiritual quest as a seeker, hungering and thirsting for the rich plunge into the depths of the mystical experience of God. The more I find out, the more I want to know. Yet, somehow, I am continually satisfied in my soul, body, and mind when I tune in to God. This allows me to experience joy, peace, love, and harmonious living in many ways. 

I believe I am a spiritual entity, one with God, of the same essence as God (Spirit), but continuing to grow and expand in awareness and degree in this physical dimension of existence - - as such, I am inextricably linked to God and all of creation and can replicate order, peace, love, wisdom, and any other God qualities in my life as I learn to act, speak, and think in alignment with principles and ideals of God.

Being one with God, I can at any moment attune myself to the Presence of God in prayer and meditation, or by reading and contemplating scripture, or by singing or worshiping with others in a spiritual community. I believe God is everywhere-present and all-knowing. This Presence is readily accessible. I don’t pray to a god. But, as I focus my mind and heart on God and on sacred timeless truths that I believe to be God-inspired, it is from this centeredness that I pray and I commune in and with God. I believe in Oneness, that I am forever intertwined and connected with God; I can never be separate from God.  Even when I was a small child, I believed in God, but a more separate God, a somewhere-out-there God - - somehow, if I could make contact with God, pray right, live right, give right, then I could affect some kind of change in my life. But now, I understand the Infinite Presence as active in, as, and through me. I don’t have to “get” anything from God. My part is to wake up and recognize my Oneness with God. My recognition of Oneness is my fulfillment, love, abundance, and all other expressions of an abundant life. And I believe this is possible for everyone, as we are all expressions of God.

Faith keeps me living and seeing the blessings that come from being open to the wisdom and joys of life. Faith is the exciting part of being alive. It is because of this faith that I act in the world in accordance with what I believe the truths and principles of God are, individually and in community. I do not try to appease some deity as in the early development of humankind, but my intention is to be in communion and union, birthing new creations of good each day.

Blessings,
Dinah