We’ve just celebrated the Feast of the Holy Trinity.
Trinity:
Three persons in one God?
What nonsense is this?
If there is a God,
Then surely, He is One?
Mystery:
Profoundly troubling?
Hardly concocted by man?
Is there a logic here?
Does this revelation resonate?
Godhead:
Can only be self-sufficient,
Eternally complete.
Otherwise God needs something,
And then God is not God.
God-nature:
God is love.
Amen, amen, amen!
And love cannot be One.
Relationship is all.
Trinity:
God is perfect, unchanging,
Eternally self-sufficient.
The simple logic of love:
God is a community.
Trinity:
Father, Son, Spirit,
From all time, for all time,
The original family,
Perfect synergy of love.
Humankind:
We were not essential.
God did not need us.
A blow to our pride?
Or something more wonderful?
Overflowing:
God’s gracious design:
Beings in His own image,
Who might reciprocate love,
Only through radical freedom.
Unconditional:
His love is primary,
Given with no strings attached.
We can only dare to hope,
Because – God is love.
Trinity:
Now we know love’s Name.
Jesus: Word and Sacrament.
Sent by the Father,
Present through the Spirit.
Trinity:
This is what love is!
Perfect mutual self-giving.
Brimming over, superabundant,
Expressed in Creation.
Glory be:
To the Father,
And to the Son,
And to the Holy Spirit.
Amen alleluia!