Dear Friends,
The meaning of the feast of the Holy Trinity eludes us. In this age that demands to know immediately the usefulness or relevance of any thought, we get impatient with the word “Trinity” – which seems beyond us.
But God is not beyond us.
God is not some impartial observer who watches from afar, but a lover of all things human and created.
When we fall down into the sewer basin as the ducklings in Buffalo did last week, God, like Mama Duck, stands guard until help comes.
God is never, ever absent from us.
God’s Word offers us truth, even when we don’t want to hear it.
God’s Spirit opens us up to the new, the unpredictable and holy.
God cannot be defined by our need.
God does not fulfill our personal or political agenda.
God simply is.
The boundaries of our language give us no once-and-for-all way of giving a clear, unequivocal expression to who God is. But God, who embraces us minute by minute, says to us: “I will be your God and you will be my people.” No conditions.
When we switch to the categories of love, ah! That’s different from trying to understand God with our minds. We can grasp God as simply loving us.
Think of people you love and who love you. God’s love is their love exponentially multiplied.
~ Sister Joan Sobala
