Isaiah 6:1-8; Romans 8:12-17; John 3:1-17
Today is Trinity Sunday, so we try, attempt, take a stab at describing what this means. We talk about God in three persons, united together and it all seems too little. Our words are not sufficient, they are not expansive enough and they fall short. To truly describe the Trinity you have to be a poet, an artist, a musician something which isn't limited in just one vein. I struggle today with writing this down in words. I want it to be free. To dance through my thoughts and keep on going. It's one thing to preach what I have in there, it's another to write it down and make it into something concrete.
God, Son, Spirit our threefold persons, not separate, united as one. How would we write this down. Look up infinity, try to describe it in some tangible way. It is gone like a breath out of you. Can you trace it? No. Should we even try. We like to have things made explainable, reachable and yet this is not so with many of the complex things in religion and in science. Physics has changed it's wording of things because there are so many things which are speculated on, they are not concrete anymore.
It's like trying to hold on to a fish you've caught when it first comes out of the water. It fights for its air underwater, to be returned to it and the oils on its skin help with it being something which slips in our fingers. Slipping through our fingers is a good explanation of the Trinity.
God, Son, Spirit dance in relationship with one another. Have you ever seen a Celtic knot? Have you ever followed it? It just spins round and round and back again, never ending, taking you in and out forever. It never stops no end, no beginning, not stopping. This is a form of Trinity. An artists unique expression. Think of the complications of hiding your beginning and end in a brushstroke, or a quill with ink, you can see where it starts by the blob of ink or where the brushstroke begins, yet somehow you can hide this because you know the secret of what it is to conceal the signs.
Trinity, we try to make headship and formulae of how the Spirit comes and they all pale when we dance or when we unite it in a circle, or knot, or whatever it may be. There is an icon of the Trinity which pictures them all sitting at a table together. It's supposed to be of the visitors who came to Abraham under the oaks at Mamre. They sit at the round table and because of perspective there is a space in the front. A few days ago I was reading Richard Rohr's "The Divine Dance" and in it he explains this icon in detail picking up on something I've never noticed before. In the front of the table there is a square, this is rumored to have been a place where a mirror was mounted to the icon. This means we are invited to this Trinity.
See the Trinity is about relationship. All of our faith life is about relationship. Do we pray, do we keep relationship with God in any form? How do we treat one another, how do we treat our enemies? Do we pray for them, do we try and turn the other cheek, do we feed, clothe, visit? This is all a part of the Divine dance of the Trinity and we are invited to be a part of that life. God came to a people enslaved and brought them to a land of promise, God sent Jesus for a new covenant with all people, the Spirit came to walk the way with us for all who receive.
Join the circle. Deepen your relationship with God, Son, Spirit by asking others to join the circle. Will we encourage our relationship with the Divine and with one another? Can we picture ourselves in this Divine dance? We are invited, not by and by, but now. Come and join, come and see, come and be a part of what helps us understand holy relationship.
Today is Trinity Sunday, so we try, attempt, take a stab at describing what this means. We talk about God in three persons, united together and it all seems too little. Our words are not sufficient, they are not expansive enough and they fall short. To truly describe the Trinity you have to be a poet, an artist, a musician something which isn't limited in just one vein. I struggle today with writing this down in words. I want it to be free. To dance through my thoughts and keep on going. It's one thing to preach what I have in there, it's another to write it down and make it into something concrete.
God, Son, Spirit our threefold persons, not separate, united as one. How would we write this down. Look up infinity, try to describe it in some tangible way. It is gone like a breath out of you. Can you trace it? No. Should we even try. We like to have things made explainable, reachable and yet this is not so with many of the complex things in religion and in science. Physics has changed it's wording of things because there are so many things which are speculated on, they are not concrete anymore.
It's like trying to hold on to a fish you've caught when it first comes out of the water. It fights for its air underwater, to be returned to it and the oils on its skin help with it being something which slips in our fingers. Slipping through our fingers is a good explanation of the Trinity.
God, Son, Spirit dance in relationship with one another. Have you ever seen a Celtic knot? Have you ever followed it? It just spins round and round and back again, never ending, taking you in and out forever. It never stops no end, no beginning, not stopping. This is a form of Trinity. An artists unique expression. Think of the complications of hiding your beginning and end in a brushstroke, or a quill with ink, you can see where it starts by the blob of ink or where the brushstroke begins, yet somehow you can hide this because you know the secret of what it is to conceal the signs.
Trinity, we try to make headship and formulae of how the Spirit comes and they all pale when we dance or when we unite it in a circle, or knot, or whatever it may be. There is an icon of the Trinity which pictures them all sitting at a table together. It's supposed to be of the visitors who came to Abraham under the oaks at Mamre. They sit at the round table and because of perspective there is a space in the front. A few days ago I was reading Richard Rohr's "The Divine Dance" and in it he explains this icon in detail picking up on something I've never noticed before. In the front of the table there is a square, this is rumored to have been a place where a mirror was mounted to the icon. This means we are invited to this Trinity.
See the Trinity is about relationship. All of our faith life is about relationship. Do we pray, do we keep relationship with God in any form? How do we treat one another, how do we treat our enemies? Do we pray for them, do we try and turn the other cheek, do we feed, clothe, visit? This is all a part of the Divine dance of the Trinity and we are invited to be a part of that life. God came to a people enslaved and brought them to a land of promise, God sent Jesus for a new covenant with all people, the Spirit came to walk the way with us for all who receive.
Join the circle. Deepen your relationship with God, Son, Spirit by asking others to join the circle. Will we encourage our relationship with the Divine and with one another? Can we picture ourselves in this Divine dance? We are invited, not by and by, but now. Come and join, come and see, come and be a part of what helps us understand holy relationship.
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