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God for us, we call You Father,
God along side us, we call You Jesus,
God within us, we call You Holy Spirit.
You are the Eternal Mystery
that enables, enfolds, and enlivens all things,
even us,
and even me.
Every name falls short of your
Goodness and Greatness.
We can only see who You are in what is.
We ask for such perfect seeing.
As it was in the beginning, is now,
and ever shall be.
Amen.
A spiritual director said once that the role of a pastor is to “sit with the Trinity and let everything else flow from there”. To sit with our God who exists as relationship will inform who we are, as well as who we are corporately. Cool things to ponder today.
Jurgen Moltmann says:
The trinitarian unity of the Son and the Father through the Spirit is a model for the relationships of men and women in the Spirit of Christ. The unity of the Church resides neither in the monarchy of God, nor in God as a supreme, divine essence, but in the trinitarian communion of God. However, this trinitarian community is so wide and so open that the Church and the whole world can “live” within it. The prayer of Jesus that “you may be one in us” is a prayer that is answered. Whether we know it or not we not only believe in the triune God, but also “live” in the triune God.
This reciprocal, sometimes called mystical, “living in God” also belongs to the trinitarian life: “those who live in love, live in God and God in them” (1 John 4:6). “We in God and God in us” is not meant merely as some sort of fleeting, mystical rapture, but is a daily relaxing quiet and intimate “living.”
The prayer above is by Fr. Richard Rohr
(And thanks to Mike Morrell who published this first today.)
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June 7, 2009 at 1:52 pm
Ellen, loved being reminded that I am in the middle of a great and powerful mystery. Also read pentecost 2009 – my heart says “yes” one voice – His – in all of us.
June 13, 2009 at 6:07 pm
THE very best Trinity Sunday thoughts I heard this year. And, I heard some good ones when I was in Oregon.
Peace, Skip.