Trinity Thoughts

Last Sunday, the church celebrated the mystery of Trinity. But how are we to embrace this mystery in our day to day living?

In the National Gallery of Art in London there's a picture of the Crucifixion that is so dark that when you first look at it, you can't see anything. But if you stand and ponder it, and if you do not permit your gaze to falter, eventually you will see in the darkness a very dim figure of the crucified Christ. If you look longer and do not allow your attention to be diverted, you then begin to discern behind the figure of Christ the presence of God the Father, whose hands are holding up his Son, and on his face is a look of unimaginable grief.

There, in those five hours, no matter what the depths to which he went, Jesus knew his Father.

The early church leaders described the Trinity using the term perichoresis. Peri, meaning circle, and choresis, meaning dance. The saw the Trinity as an eternal dance of Father, Son and Spirit sharing mutual love, honour, happiness, joy and respect. 

Against this backdrop, God’s act of creation means that God is inviting more and more beings into the eternal dance of joy.

Prayer

Yours is the flow

That created kindness

You are the Dance

That ignites all Light

You are the Three

Who contain all Oneness

In You we gaze

With Single sight

 

Abba

You ground all things eternal

And kiss the earth with glad embrace

Christ the Son

In a world of sorrows

Transfigures pain with healing grace

Spirit of Love

Sows new creation

In every soil weak or strong

Your beloved

Mirrors every gesture

In this our wild,

Reconciling song!

 

God alone

There is no other

Apart from You what can take form?

You are the play in every atom

Trinity

In You we’re born

 

This hour brings sorrow and challenge

Never before have we faced so much;

Upon Your goodness we’ll incarnate

Release our hands for Your healing touch

 

Bound to You

We’re Your wounded healers

Binding earth

With heaven’s balm

Boundless here in realms unscripted

Tree of Life

Is your free-verse psalm

 

And so today we dance Your circle

Rhythm of life Your cadence grows;

Let the circle be unbroken

Drawing all in

To Your radiant flow. Amen