June 16, 2022

Last Sunday was Trinity Sunday, a day where we draw close to the mystery of God who is three-in-one and one-in-three. Last Sunday, we also heard a sermon that from three voices of leaders across our synod – three voices, three perspectives, one sermon, one gospel in Christ.

What a gift to be created in the image of a God who is diverse and yet is one. To be a people with the capacity for unity and oneness that does not require assimilation or erasure of difference, but instead includes and celebrates diversity not as a barrier to unity, but as part of being truly united.

I often remember a quote from Franciscan Father Richard Rohr about how mystery is not something unknowable, but rather mystery is infinitely knowable – there’s always more to discover and learn. The gift of the holy mystery of the Triune God is what it means for who and whose we are.

Relationship is at the center of who God is.
God creates space in and among God’s own self to invite us into the perichoresis – the loving flow and dance of the divine.
God is as close to us as our own breath and at the same time so immense and transcendent and expansive that there is always room for abundantly far more than we can ask or imagine.

We, too, are created by relationship for relationship with God and one another that makes space and expands and includes and transcends for the sake of an ever-expanding love and a life that is abundantly far more than we can ask or imagine. That is the gift of Trinity – that we are part of something larger, ever-expanding, infinitely diverse yet inseparably one.

What a gift to get a glimpse of that in our synod assembly, in the sermon shared across the synod last Sunday, in those moments of surprising relationships and playful joy, in those times of sorrow still surrounded by love just the same.

Hear the invitation of the Triune God calling to you again today, 
“Come join the dance of Trinity, before all worlds begun – the interweaving of the Three, the Father, Spirit, Son. The universe of space and time did not arrive by chance, but as the Three, in love and hope, made room within their dance.” (Come Join The Dance of Trinity, ELW #412)
 
Grace & Peace,
Pastor Drew