Wednesday, May 27, 2020
Trinity of Love
A re-post from Trinity Sunday 2013.
Throughout Eastertide we explored the gifts we receive when we open ourselves to the privilege of serving as Christ’s disciples: meekness, broken-heartedness, constancy, honesty, truth revealed, willingness, steadfastness and celebration. Today as we celebrate the mystery and gift of the Trinity, we might well wonder how and where and when we will find the stamina to endure. We might ask . . . how are we to endure?
Jesus said to his disciples: I have much more to tell you, but you cannot bear it now.
It is true that if we were to see the fullness of our lives rolled out before us we might fall into despair. How wise it is that in God’s plan we live only a day at a time.
When the Spirit of truth comes she will guide you all to truth.
It is best that we learn to live in truth alone. It is the very essence of God’s plan and so we must set aside all thought of deception, subterfuge and deceit. How good it is in God’s plan that we look forward in hope.
She will not speak on her own but she will speak what she hears, and will declare to you the things that are coming.
It is correct that once we use our suffering to tune ourselves to hear God’s word we find the work of discipleship less painful. How wonderful it is that God is so constant and loving.
She will glorify me, because she will take from what is mine and declare it to you.
It is amazing that God continues to love us despite our smallness and reluctance to follow the difficult Way. How astonishing is God to show us this intense and passionate fidelity.
Everything that the Father has is mine; for this reason I told you she will take from what is mine and declare it to you.
It is humbling to discover that God and Christ and the Spirit live together in lovely harmony. How marvelous it is that God shares the mystery of this union even though we understand it so poorly.
Jesus said to his disciples: I have much more to tell you, but you cannot bear it now.
Let us cease our grumbling, let us banish our doubt, and let us come to God willingly, honestly and steadfastly. Let us bring our brokenness. Let us surrender our willfulness. And let us rejoice in celebration that this Trinity of Love counts us at her center.
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