I've started reading Richard Rohr's new book on the Trinity (Richard Rohr with Mike Morrell, The Divine Dance: The Trinity and Your Transformation (Whitaker House: 2016).
Did your eyes glaze over? Sorry, that wasn't the response I was hoping for. I don't mean to engage you in a long theological argument, but rather draw your attention into both the microscopic and macroscopic worlds (and everything in between).
The Trinity has to deal with these worlds because the one reflects the other. The Trinity is ultimately about relationship: the three persons are in interaction with one another; they outpour love one to another; they depend upon the others to fill them back up again, only so they can outpour once more; they are diverse, yet cherish that very diversity; ... On a microscopic level isn't this what happens within atoms and between molecules? What about on the macroscopic level? Aren't we discovering that universe operates in relation with other universes?
It definitely happens on the human level: we are retational beings.
But what does this say about the church; about how we are to relate to the world?
So this week in Lent I marvel and ponder the implications, all the while relating. May it be so with you also.
Blessed be,
Joel
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