I believe in one God the Father Almighty, maker of heaven and earth, and of all things visible and invisible...
Rowan Williams writes in Tokens of Trust (TT), "God is to be trusted as we would trust a loving parent, whose commitment to is is inexhaustible, whose purposes for us are unfailingly generous." (pg 19)
The hardest thing to get in the life of faith is that God cares. I do not know why that is the case. For whatever reason whenever the worst happens, God cares. It would be easier to believe that God did not care so that we could discard God once and for all. However, this is not the case. Somehow we have to reckon the awfulness of life and a loving God trying to find a way to reconcile the two. We have to trust that God is continuously acting towards us in a generous way, or acting toward us in a way which redeems the awfulness. This is not to say that God causes the awful things in our lives to bring the best out for us. Rather, God only acts toward us in an extremely generous way and only good.
I believe this is what is meant by God being the "Father Almighty, maker of heaven and earth, and of all things visible and invisible." The things that we need, the things that bring us wholeness are basic to the ways God has created to us. God created us to be happy (beatitude). However, to know what completes us/makes us happy involves the deep knowledge of the one who makes us and who is almighty, capable of making us happy.
Tron Legacy is a movie about just this. The sequel to the Disney classic reboots the micro world envisioned by its creator Flynn. However, Flynn lives two lives. One in the real world and one in the cyber world. In order to maintain order in both worlds (the cyber and the real one) Flynn creates in his own image "Clue" to maintain the cyber world. Eventually, Clue rebels against his creator and tries to create for himself the "perfect system". Clue murders and destroys many programs (cybernetic equivalent of people) in order to fill that emptiness meant for his relationship with Flynn. Ultimately Flynn, out of love for Clue, his son, and the system reunites Clue with his own being destroying himself in order to bring balance. It is Flynn and Flynn alone who can set everything right.
Granted, this movie lacks certain aspects of the Creedal confession of God the Father. God cannot die in the absolute since as Flynn does. However, the God of the Creed is the Father Almighty who brings about the greatest things for it. It is not necessarily that Flynn destroys Clue (and himself) but that God possesses the power to bring completeness to the system THAT GOD MADE.
The only one who knows how to complete is the one who made it in the first place.
I am drawn to this because often times texts don't come. They just don't. Loneliness happens, it does. That incompleteness can only be fixed through a one who acts generous toward me. This acting is miraculous. Because a miracle is none other than an incomplete creation's incomprehensible emptiness being filled. Can't explain it. Just sometimes the creation opens up to its creator and is brought to its completion. This rehearses the ultimate completion that comes to all in the eschaton.
Thus, why am I drawn to this display of faith? I have no idea, just every now and then I am drawn to the holy in ways that I do not expect, but nevertheless was what I need. Can't manufacture it, just longingly trust the one who acts generously, the Almighty maker of heaven and earth.
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