Tuesday, May 28, 2013

Beckoning us into relationship

"'One God and three Persons' is a oneness with diversity."
Rev. Robert Dueweke, OSA, "Living With Christ"

Trinity Sunday is always interesting because the Trinity is so difficult to explain! But I read and heard some very thought-provoking reflections on the Trinity that really got my juices flowing, beginning with this from Fr. Dueweke. He also says, "The Trinity is self-giving surrender and shared love with all creation." The Father loves the Son with self-giving, the Son loves the Spirit with self-giving, and so on. And then it all came together when both our homilist and Fr. James Martin, SJ (whose blog I read) said that the Trinity is all about relationship. God beckons us into relationship. All God wants is us--pursuing us, waiting for us. It is our choice, completely. God does not want to force us and wants us to come freely. But the Trinity exemplifies relationship--the kind of relationship God invites us to share. That relationship is self-giving and reciprocal; it is not one-sided. That relationship has so much power within it that it can reach out to others and invite them in as well. What does that look like on a late-May Tuesday? It means that we are part of a loving family, with God in all three persons. It means that we take that love we receive from our family and give it to those we meet in our day. It is self-giving and relational. A wonderful glimpse of what the Trinity is! Love, heidi

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