God is Trinity

Our images of God become more fluid as we grow in spiritual maturity. Imagination is more important than knowledge.—Einstein. We may have to abandon some images that are unhelpful. (stern judge, far-away king, policeman ready to catch us, male, old man with a beard; God is the one who punishes me.)

We will have to accept new images, we will have to discover other helpful images: God is our Mother. God is our Grandmother. God is our Lover. God is our Friend. We may have to change the way we think about God, the way we imagine God, if we have to grow spiritually. Why do I say this? Because: God comes to each of us in unique ways throughout our lives.

Our experience of God is utterly personal. God speaks to our heart. He speaks to the depth of our being. Deep speaks to deep. Heart speaks to heart.

We can give a thousand names and more to God. Today the Church gives us this image: God is Trinity. = God is Love. God is a flow of relationships among the three persons. God is Relationship. (and a perfect relationship is love!) Father. Son. Holy Spirit. Holy Spirit is the loving relationship between the Father and the Son. Unconditional Love. Unconditional Forgiveness. Unconditional Presence. God-for-us. God-with-us. God-within-us.

 The Greek church fathers: God is a circle dance. Perichoresis. Flow of relationships… St Augustine: They are each in each and all in each, and each in all, and all in all, and all are one. Names are interchangeable.

Let us make the human person in our own image.... Dynamism is seen here already.

In the second reading, Paul tells us: God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit that has been given to us (Rom 5:5).

You see, God is not a concept, not an idea. He is a Person. We need to fall in love with this Person. Who has dynamism*within: eternal flow of love. = Circle dance.

God is the Being whose centre is everywhere, and whose circumference is nowhere.—St Bonaventure.

We have to break through our ideas about God to find out who God really is. All we have to lose are the *false images* of God that do not serve us and are too small.

God loves you 100%. You are mixture of good and bad, light and darkness: but God still totally loves you. You are not perfectly a loving person, but God still totally loves you. God’s loves is given to us freely. We can never merit God’s love. We can never earn God’s love.

The foundational good news is that all of creation and all of humanity have been drawn into this loving flow (no exceptions)! 

There is a fourth person of the Trinity. Do you know who? The Creation. We all. We are not outsiders or spectators but inherently part of the divine dance.

God is a mystery. Mystery is something that can be understood endlessly. God cannot be known with our intellect and mind. But with our heart. He refuses to reveal himself to our mind, to our learnedness… But He can be only known through our love.

And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Comforter and Helper to be with you forever, the Spirit of Truth. This is the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him nor knows him. You know him, because he abides within you, and he will be in you. —Jn 14:16–17.