The mystery of Trinity

 John 3:1-17

John likes to loose us. Where did we start here? Nicodemus, and he falls silent after Jesus starts to get ever deeper into the mystery of Spirit and being born again. We don't end with him asking another question, we must end with him scratching his head though. Because Jesus' answer seems to be more and more of a mystery. 

Trinity Sunday this day when try to describe anything...well, it's not much different from Nicodemus' questions not getting answered. We dive deeper and deeper and well, it's unity, it's one in three different persons, it's just confusing. Most metaphors for it break down after a bit as well. They pale in comparison to what the Trinity truly represents. 

The better question is how do we enter into the mystery of it? How do we keep it wide open and open ourselves to this unknown territory? We can join Nicodemus in trying to get to the right answer or we can just leave and give up, or we can try and rest in the knowledge we don't know it all.

See to me the mystery of Trinity is every time I begin to fall into the depths of the unknown. Like the time I went with my youth group to Ecclesia Ministries in Boston. They run a mission to the homeless out of the cathedral there. We were there to hear some of the people's stories, to feed, to clothe, and to walk together with them. One of the presenters was talking about the art courses they did there and presented their piece of art. It was a host (in clay) and when he lifted it up, it was like all time stopped, and there was the distinct presence of the holy. To this day I can't describe it fully, but I knew I was on holy ground in with the dance of God, Jesus, and Spirit. Words can't describe it and I can't stage it happening, I know when it does come to be.

A friend this week described it in the overwhelming sense of green outside. How it just does something to make you feel at one with all the creation. This is a wander into the Trinity once again. It blows where it might. It doesn't give us full words or full answers. It is our space to just be at one with the Creator, with the unknown.

Our biggest obstacle is not having all the words and formulas for the Trinity down right. It is in our getting lost, speechless, without words and being aware we are finally in a sacred space and time. It is our trying to nail it down which makes it more elusive. So if we find ourselves out of words, out of explanations, out of time, out of ourselves we may just have bumped into it. For when we are lost we are most found. 

For God so loved the world and wanted us to loose ourselves and find this holy space. It doesn't need a building, it doesn't need a certain person it can be the place where we have found we are loved the most. Then we break into the dance of Trinity, joined with Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.