12th Sunday in Ordinary Time year B
Mark 4:35-41 / 2 Corinthians 6:1-13
24 June 2012
It’s the cry and the call, so common, so often heard these days … “Oh, when things get back to normal … then, then it will be OK, then I’ll be able to get on with my life, then I’ll be able to get things done, get settled,” and so on.
“Normal” is what we all are seeking, hoping, longing for … whether it’s a return to a normalcy of health or wealth, job or family life … although … although, if you push someone who says that line … you’ll likely not get a straightforward answer as to what “normal” is. Perhaps they … or we, ourselves, if we are the ones seeking “normal” … will express it in some sort of a vague “feeling” way … something to do with “stability” or “security” … and, most likely, a sense of independence, self-reliance, knowing that we’re going to be OK and that we’ll be able to do it and make it on our own once again, like it used to be before whatever happened … illness, accident, economic hardship, lightning bolt from the sky … whatever happened, that turned our world upside down.
What had turned the disciples’ world upside down was … simply enough … Jesus’ coming among them … and that’s what we’ve been reading and hearing about, getting ourselves reacquainted with the opening stories of Mark’s Gospel in these post-Pentecost days of Ordinary Time. Mark’s the Gospel which prefaces nearly every turn and twist with “immediately,” to emphasize the bold, decisive moves which is Jesus’ story in this Gospel story … and thus far … as today we close out reading the fourth chapter of Mark … thus far it’s been a whirlwind, hard-pressing the reader … and most certainly, those who were there, living these events … hard-pressing them, and us, to find any “normal” which to cling.
Jesus casting out demons. Jesus healing lepers and the paralyzed. Jesus uttering new teachings. Jesus arguing with the religious leaders who question and challenge his authority.
And always, always, there were crowds. Pressing crowds. So many people around Jesus that his disciples feared the crowd would crush him.
And so, when Jesus said to his disciples, “Let us go across to the other side of the lake,” they surely jumped at the chance. Here would be a time, a place, where they could finally be away from the crowds and the controversy, a time, a place where they could just be, just them and Jesus, together. Finding “normal” again … perhaps, for the first time.
But then up came the storm. It’s one of those classic Sunday School Bible story moments … because almost everyone has seen a thunder and wind storm before, many of us have seen them on a lake or a large body of water … how fast they can come up, how strong they can blow, and we “get” the awesome fury of nature and what it can do. The Sea of Galilee isn’t huge … 13 miles long, 8 miles wide, 33 miles around. But to be in a little boat, halfway across, with four miles still ahead of you, in the midst of a lot of wind and waves … it would have been a frightening experience.
And it must have been a BIG storm … remember, many of the disciples were fishermen, so they would have seen … and been in … storms on this lake before. For them to show this much fear shows how big and bad the storm really was.
Just as fast, though, Jesus takes care of it. Again, it’s the Sunday School lesson moment, the one immortalized in that old 60s song about “putting your hand in the hand of the man who stilled the water, the man who calmed the sea.” It’s the teachable time, the great and wondrous miracle, Jesus has rescued the faithless disciples with just a word … “Peace! Be still!”
But … wait just a minute with our rushing the disciples to be rescued.
For there is one five word sentence here, in this short story from Mark’s Gospel, which ought, this morning, ought to give us some pause.
I don’t know if you heard it or not when it was read a few minutes ago.
So here it is again.
On that day, when evening had come, Jesus said to them, “Let us go across to the other side (of the lake).” And leaving the crowd behind, the disciples took Jesus with them in the boat, just as he was.
Other boats were with him.
OTHER BOATS WERE WITH HIM.
How many of you, how many of us, when you’ve heard this story, have pictured just ONE boat out there on the Sea of Galilee, getting bounced around on the waves? Come on, admit it. Most if not all of you have. I have.
The most famous art rendition, Rembrandt’s “Storm on the Sea of Galilee,” pictured on our bulletin cover this morning, reinforces this.
Yet, that’s not what the text says. Other boats were with him.
Well, no wonder we’ve missed this point. The disciples have, too.
Actually, the disciples have missed a lot of what’s been going on around them.
Haven’t they been paying attention to all that Jesus has been saying and doing, what Mark has conveyed in the past four chapters? The healings, the teachings? Obviously not.
No wonder they miss the fact that, out there on that stormy sea, they are not alone.
They’ve got tunnel vision … in the moment of crisis, they can’t see anything around them … just themselves.
TEACHER, DO YOU NOT CARE THAT WE ARE PERISHING???!!!
Perhaps I shouldn’t be so hard on the disciples, this early in Mark’s Gospel story. After all, there will be plenty of opportunity for that later on (!) but as for right now, they haven’t been with Jesus that long, they are still immature in the faith.
Jesus sees this. After he calms the storm, he asks the disciples, “Why are you afraid? Have you still no faith?”
The sense of the word Jesus uses that’s translated as “afraid,” the sense is that Jesus sees the disciples lacking something in their inner being. They are “afraid” because they don’t have faith … literally, what Jesus asks them is “DO YOU NOT HAVE FAITH?” And he answers the question for himself, in the way he asks it … Well, No, They Don’t Have Faith.
Otherwise, they would have known that they were safe with Jesus. Otherwise, at the very least, they would have realized that the other boats could, would have come to their rescue, banded together to make it across the stormy lake without loss of life.
The disciples’ fear is causing them to have tunnel vision … they can’t see anything beyond themselves … in the moment of crisis, self-preservation kicks in to rule their day, “it’s all about me … it’s all up to me … up to me, to rouse Jesus, to get this storm to end, TO GET THINGS BACK TO NORMAL AGAIN.”
Once again, this week, just like last week, in the parable Jesus was telling about the Mustard Seed, It’s All About Faith. Even a little bit of faith would have seen the other boats, would have realized that Jesus was Someone Different, that they were on their way to a New Normal together, together with Jesus, together with the others who were following Jesus … on their way across the sea to the land of the Gentiles (how could they have EVER thought that things were going to be regular old NORMAL now???)
And that’s what I believe is so vitally important in not missing those five little words we’ve skimmed over in this story. Other boats were with him emphasizes the together-nature of life with Jesus … life to be lived, not alone and independent, self-reliant in times of the great storms of life … no, life in Christ is life meant to be lived in the body … the body of Christ in the world … the body of other believers who make up the body of Christ in the world.
This is what Paul is talking about in our reading from 2nd Corinthians. For what is Paul laying out here to those members of the Corinthian church … but a list, a litany of all the storms he’s been through in his life since Jesus entered in and created his … Paul’s … new “normal” …
As servants of God we have commended ourselves in every way: through great endurance, in afflictions, hardships, calamities, beatings, imprisonments, riots … by purity, knowledge, patience, kindness … in honor and dishonor … and so on.
In and through all these things … bad, and good … the Body of Christ …
… the believers Paul was finding …
… the Word about Jesus was creating in, among, around him …
… the Body of Christ was carrying Paul through all of them … these, in a way, you could say, life-storms.
In community … in and among, with and through the body of his fellow-believers, even though he and they were separated by much time and space … still, in and through that community, the Body of Christ, Paul was assured and carried through his life-storms. That’s how he could say in that last portion of his letter to them, in all honesty, truth, and encouragement for them to remain strong in the Body of Christ, together …
We have spoken frankly to you Corinthians; our heart is wide open to you … open wide your hearts also.
Other boats were with him. Later, for the disciples themselves, after Jesus, his in-the-flesh presence had gone away from them … after he was crucified and raised, ascended to his Father and our Father in heaven … after those times, it would be the Body of Christ … those other boats, those other believers, who would remind them of Jesus … who would encourage, support, help, guide, bring them through, keep on carrying forth the message of Jesus into the world. It would not be totally up to them … they were not alone. The Spirit of Christ was with them, and in and through those other believers, they saw and felt the Body of Christ at work, in the world.
And so it’s been for two thousand years, as the message of Jesus keeps on creating the Body of Christ in the world … the creative, healing, teaching, renewing, forgiving word of Jesus moving through … people … other boats, other believers.
We are not alone on the stormy seas we encounter in life. Christ is with us. Sometimes he shows himself to us in big, astounding ways, like calming the storm. But most of the time, it’s those other boats who are with him, with us … Jesus’ body, in the body of other believers, surrounding us, encouraging us, close to us, reminding us of Christ’s love and peace and care … reminding us through Paul’s words to another congregation, those in Galatia, that “the Law of Christ” is that we “bear one another’s burdens.” Total independence and self-sufficiency are good … very good … in some things, but when it comes to life in the Body of Christ, they are of no use … to Jesus, or anyone else.
We belong together. We serve together. We rejoice together. We hurt together. We are the body, together, the other boats out there on the stormy sea, and together, we will reach the other side, because the body we bear and the body we are, is Jesus.
Good words for any day, but particularly good words for us, Nativity, today, embarking on our annual meeting soon, sending forth a new pastor a little later on. This faith, this life, it’s not a solo affair, and it’s not all up to me … me, or you, by ourselves.
Other boats are with us. We are in this together, this faith, this life, the Body of Christ, called, gathered, fed and nourished, and sent into the world to be as Christ to and for the world.
Thanks be to God. Amen.
Sunday, June 24, 2012
Sunday, June 03, 2012
03 June 2012
“Holy triangulation!”
The Holy Trinity B
Romans 8:12-17 / John 3:1-17
3 June 2012
For those of you who have done any study of relationship systems … whether it’s family systems or office systems or school culture systems or even church systems … the word “triangulation” is probably a dirty word. Or at least, one heavily laden with negative baggage.
Though it shouldn’t be that way.
Because triangles are simply the way we humans operate in relationship with each other.
Here are a few examples of what I mean.
Person A hears that Person C had something good happen in their life … an upcoming birthday, a child being married, a promotion at work … and Person A wants to surprise Person C with a gift. So they go to Person B … a mutual friend, relative, acquaintance … to find out what would be suitable.
Person C likes Person B. A lot. But Person C can’t get up the nerve to let Person B know this … in person … because they’re too shy, uncomfortable, whatever. So Person C goes to Person A … again, a mutual friend, acquaintance, etc … to find out if Person B even knows Person C exists. And what Person C can do to strike up a relationship with Person B.
Yes, I know, that last one sounds like the plot to every episode of the “Partridge Family.”
Those are normal, one might even say, healthy, human triangles.
Ah, but those probably aren’t the ones we think about when we hear that word “triangulation.”
These would be more like it.
The supervisor Jim doesn’t like the job that employee Rex is doing. But instead of going directly to Rex, he sends another employee … Jane … to tell Rex that “I’ve heard the boss is mad at you because he doesn’t like the job you’re doing” … and then Rex says to Jane, “Oh yeah, well you can tell that so-and-so that I don’t think he’s a very good boss either,” etc. etc.
Or … perhaps familiar to those of you who did the “Healthy Congregations” work with Pastor Kate Schlechter here a few years ago …
Pastor Don is approached about starting a contemporary worship service at Christ Church … and so he helps empower a group of people to do just that. However, another group of people isn’t happy with this development … but they don’t go directly to the group of people who started the service to tell them … no, there are a series of behind the scenes phone calls, letters, efforts to undermine Pastor Don and the Congregation Council behind their backs … even involving a retired pastor from the parish … no one speaks their feelings directly to each other, but always, always involves someone else ‘in between.’
That’s the illustration of “triangulation” with which we associate the negative … passive-aggressive behavior, people unable, unwilling to speak the truth in love directly to one another, but always involving someone else to ‘do their dirty work.’ It is unhealthy behavior, unbecoming of the people of God … un-Christian, to be sure … and yet, and yet, we know it happens … in workplaces, in families, in congregations … all the time. The only way this unhealthy triangulation can end is if the system is protected against those people whose behavior is making the system ‘sick’ … those of us who have had some systems training know that these people are called ‘viruses’ … so we ‘innoculate’ the system to make it strong, and healthy … by living strong, healthy, exemplary lives of faith; reading and studying and praying in the Word of Christ; worshipping, confessing our sins, receiving forgiveness, communing together; ‘speaking the truth in love’ to our neighbor; and not falling into these unhealthy, passive-aggressive triangles.
And today … today we are presented with another example of healthy triangulation … “Holy Triangulation” … if you will … this Holy Trinity Sunday … a day, a festival in the Church … not about an act of Jesus … but instead … a theological concept … the three in one, one in three nature of our God, Father, Son, and Spirit.
For those of you who have worshipped in a Christian congregation much of your life … you’ve likely heard about all the approaches to this Holy Trinity Sunday … and the larger theological … word about God … concept behind it … you’ve likely heard all that there is for preachers to offer you on this day.
The Holy Trinity … three in one … it’s like …
An apple. Core, seeds, flesh. Three separate parts. One apple.
An egg. Yolk, white, shell. Three separate parts. One egg.
A Boeing 787. Carbon fibre. Plastic. Titanium. Three separate parts. One beautiful airplane.
Ah, but don’t you think God gets plenty tired of those cute little explanatory statements … as tired as we get, year after year, subjecting you to them.
My favorite quote about the Holy Trinity comes from Martin Luther:
To try to deny the Trinity endangers your salvation, to try to comprehend the Trinity endangers your sanity.
And it’s true … for us to keep trying to break the Trinity down into some scientific formula for God misses the point of this day entirely.
Because the Whole Point about Holy Trinity Sunday … and the one in three, three in one notion of our God which lies behind it … Father, Son, Spirit … why, it’s all about Triangulation … Holy Triangulation!
The Holy Trinity … God, Father, Son, Spirit … what this is all about … and all we need to know about it … is that God wants to live in relationship with us so much, that God sets the pace … the example … lives this out, within God.
And the Holy Trinity … holy triangulation’s difference, to and for us, is that, while we humans so often get relationship messed up … through our own selfishness, oversensitivity, SIN … our human triangulation turns us inward, for what we believe is self-protection, self-preservation … but is really self-centeredness …
God’s Holy Triangulation … Father, Son, and Spirit … is all about relationship turned OUTWARD, to and for the sake of the world … the creation … the people God loves … US.
Through the words of St. Paul in our reading from Romans … we GET that kind of intertwined, outward-focused relationship within God … focused outward, toward US, God’s beloved:
For you did not receive a spirit of slavery … but a spirit of adoption. When we cry, “Abba! Father!” (literally, daddy!) it is that very Spirit bearing witness with our spirit that we are children of God, and if children, then heirs, heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ …
This is relationship language, pure and simple … the relationship of Jesus, the Son, to God the Father, through the love of the Holy Spirit … that centrifugal force of divine love spinning outward touches us, too, bringing us into the family of God, through the will of God.
Bringing us into the family of God, where Christ shares all with us and we share all with Christ … where suffering is not God-forsaken but God-enveloped, Christ-drenched, en-Spirited … where Emmanuel – God-with-us really means God With Us … in all places, in all ways, to our life and God’s glory.
This is relationship language, pure and simple … and words don’t do relationship justice … you can’t comprehend relationship through words … the only way one can comprehend relationship is to be in it.
And in it we are … born into this world God loves, loves so much that he sent his only Son, filled with his living, loving Spirit … drenching us in Christ’s Word of right relationship, with God and each other, right relationship which begins in the waters of Baptism, water created by God the Father and called into being For Us by Jesus the Christ, filled with the Holy Spirit … all of this, all of these, calling us into God’s Holy Triangulation of living and loving to and for all of creation.
The only way one can comprehend relationship is to be in it. That’s the point of those familiar words of Jesus to Nicodemus, the truth-seeker, in John chapter 3. Nicodemus couldn’t fathom being ‘born again’ or ‘born from above’ and indeed, we get that, as so many of our brothers and sisters use that kind of language not as relationship builder but as relationship-ender … well, if you’re not born again, in the way I define that term, then you don’t have a real relationship with Jesus … or me … and many, many of us have been hurt … and relationships ended … and Church broken … over that un-holy triangulation … aimed inward, selfish, self-centered, un-Christian as it is.
It seems that so many of our brothers and sisters … hammering away at John 3.16 as they do … have totally neglected John 3.17:
Indeed, God did not send the Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.
Nicodemus, for his part, got it. He got the Holy Triangulation, indeed, he was swept up into it, as we read later in John’s Gospel, he defends Jesus to those of his own religion who oppose him … and at Jesus’ death, Nicodemus risks his own death, coming with Joseph of Arimathea to take Jesus’ body and prepare it for burial. Nicodemus … this much-maligned questioner, seeker … he got that what this life of faith and service is about … is relationship … up to, and through, the end.
And friends … it is into this same relationship which we are called today. Called by God the Father, gathered through the Word of God that is in, with and through Jesus … his drenching Word of Baptismal promise … his filling Word of the Meal that feeds us and sends us forth … his enfleshed Word, which, who we see and meet in the faces and embraces of each other here … and others out there … as we are sent forth in this Holy Triangulation … the love-force that is our God … Father, Son, and Spirit … spinning out this Holy Love so that it touches us, and moves us to keep going, keeps us going out, keeps us going on …
Hear that call, friends in the Holy Trinity. Hear that call, feel that call, be washed and fed in that call …
… and then, GO … GO FORTH in that call … that call which flows out from the very heart of God … through our hearts and hands … to and through and for others … and draws them into the Holy Triangulation too … which pleases God … Father, Son, and Spirit … which pleases God NO END …
The unending love relationship, in, with, to and for the world God loves.
Amen.
The Holy Trinity B
Romans 8:12-17 / John 3:1-17
3 June 2012
For those of you who have done any study of relationship systems … whether it’s family systems or office systems or school culture systems or even church systems … the word “triangulation” is probably a dirty word. Or at least, one heavily laden with negative baggage.
Though it shouldn’t be that way.
Because triangles are simply the way we humans operate in relationship with each other.
Here are a few examples of what I mean.
Person A hears that Person C had something good happen in their life … an upcoming birthday, a child being married, a promotion at work … and Person A wants to surprise Person C with a gift. So they go to Person B … a mutual friend, relative, acquaintance … to find out what would be suitable.
Person C likes Person B. A lot. But Person C can’t get up the nerve to let Person B know this … in person … because they’re too shy, uncomfortable, whatever. So Person C goes to Person A … again, a mutual friend, acquaintance, etc … to find out if Person B even knows Person C exists. And what Person C can do to strike up a relationship with Person B.
Yes, I know, that last one sounds like the plot to every episode of the “Partridge Family.”
Those are normal, one might even say, healthy, human triangles.
Ah, but those probably aren’t the ones we think about when we hear that word “triangulation.”
These would be more like it.
The supervisor Jim doesn’t like the job that employee Rex is doing. But instead of going directly to Rex, he sends another employee … Jane … to tell Rex that “I’ve heard the boss is mad at you because he doesn’t like the job you’re doing” … and then Rex says to Jane, “Oh yeah, well you can tell that so-and-so that I don’t think he’s a very good boss either,” etc. etc.
Or … perhaps familiar to those of you who did the “Healthy Congregations” work with Pastor Kate Schlechter here a few years ago …
Pastor Don is approached about starting a contemporary worship service at Christ Church … and so he helps empower a group of people to do just that. However, another group of people isn’t happy with this development … but they don’t go directly to the group of people who started the service to tell them … no, there are a series of behind the scenes phone calls, letters, efforts to undermine Pastor Don and the Congregation Council behind their backs … even involving a retired pastor from the parish … no one speaks their feelings directly to each other, but always, always involves someone else ‘in between.’
That’s the illustration of “triangulation” with which we associate the negative … passive-aggressive behavior, people unable, unwilling to speak the truth in love directly to one another, but always involving someone else to ‘do their dirty work.’ It is unhealthy behavior, unbecoming of the people of God … un-Christian, to be sure … and yet, and yet, we know it happens … in workplaces, in families, in congregations … all the time. The only way this unhealthy triangulation can end is if the system is protected against those people whose behavior is making the system ‘sick’ … those of us who have had some systems training know that these people are called ‘viruses’ … so we ‘innoculate’ the system to make it strong, and healthy … by living strong, healthy, exemplary lives of faith; reading and studying and praying in the Word of Christ; worshipping, confessing our sins, receiving forgiveness, communing together; ‘speaking the truth in love’ to our neighbor; and not falling into these unhealthy, passive-aggressive triangles.
And today … today we are presented with another example of healthy triangulation … “Holy Triangulation” … if you will … this Holy Trinity Sunday … a day, a festival in the Church … not about an act of Jesus … but instead … a theological concept … the three in one, one in three nature of our God, Father, Son, and Spirit.
For those of you who have worshipped in a Christian congregation much of your life … you’ve likely heard about all the approaches to this Holy Trinity Sunday … and the larger theological … word about God … concept behind it … you’ve likely heard all that there is for preachers to offer you on this day.
The Holy Trinity … three in one … it’s like …
An apple. Core, seeds, flesh. Three separate parts. One apple.
An egg. Yolk, white, shell. Three separate parts. One egg.
A Boeing 787. Carbon fibre. Plastic. Titanium. Three separate parts. One beautiful airplane.
Ah, but don’t you think God gets plenty tired of those cute little explanatory statements … as tired as we get, year after year, subjecting you to them.
My favorite quote about the Holy Trinity comes from Martin Luther:
To try to deny the Trinity endangers your salvation, to try to comprehend the Trinity endangers your sanity.
And it’s true … for us to keep trying to break the Trinity down into some scientific formula for God misses the point of this day entirely.
Because the Whole Point about Holy Trinity Sunday … and the one in three, three in one notion of our God which lies behind it … Father, Son, Spirit … why, it’s all about Triangulation … Holy Triangulation!
The Holy Trinity … God, Father, Son, Spirit … what this is all about … and all we need to know about it … is that God wants to live in relationship with us so much, that God sets the pace … the example … lives this out, within God.
And the Holy Trinity … holy triangulation’s difference, to and for us, is that, while we humans so often get relationship messed up … through our own selfishness, oversensitivity, SIN … our human triangulation turns us inward, for what we believe is self-protection, self-preservation … but is really self-centeredness …
God’s Holy Triangulation … Father, Son, and Spirit … is all about relationship turned OUTWARD, to and for the sake of the world … the creation … the people God loves … US.
Through the words of St. Paul in our reading from Romans … we GET that kind of intertwined, outward-focused relationship within God … focused outward, toward US, God’s beloved:
For you did not receive a spirit of slavery … but a spirit of adoption. When we cry, “Abba! Father!” (literally, daddy!) it is that very Spirit bearing witness with our spirit that we are children of God, and if children, then heirs, heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ …
This is relationship language, pure and simple … the relationship of Jesus, the Son, to God the Father, through the love of the Holy Spirit … that centrifugal force of divine love spinning outward touches us, too, bringing us into the family of God, through the will of God.
Bringing us into the family of God, where Christ shares all with us and we share all with Christ … where suffering is not God-forsaken but God-enveloped, Christ-drenched, en-Spirited … where Emmanuel – God-with-us really means God With Us … in all places, in all ways, to our life and God’s glory.
This is relationship language, pure and simple … and words don’t do relationship justice … you can’t comprehend relationship through words … the only way one can comprehend relationship is to be in it.
And in it we are … born into this world God loves, loves so much that he sent his only Son, filled with his living, loving Spirit … drenching us in Christ’s Word of right relationship, with God and each other, right relationship which begins in the waters of Baptism, water created by God the Father and called into being For Us by Jesus the Christ, filled with the Holy Spirit … all of this, all of these, calling us into God’s Holy Triangulation of living and loving to and for all of creation.
The only way one can comprehend relationship is to be in it. That’s the point of those familiar words of Jesus to Nicodemus, the truth-seeker, in John chapter 3. Nicodemus couldn’t fathom being ‘born again’ or ‘born from above’ and indeed, we get that, as so many of our brothers and sisters use that kind of language not as relationship builder but as relationship-ender … well, if you’re not born again, in the way I define that term, then you don’t have a real relationship with Jesus … or me … and many, many of us have been hurt … and relationships ended … and Church broken … over that un-holy triangulation … aimed inward, selfish, self-centered, un-Christian as it is.
It seems that so many of our brothers and sisters … hammering away at John 3.16 as they do … have totally neglected John 3.17:
Indeed, God did not send the Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.
Nicodemus, for his part, got it. He got the Holy Triangulation, indeed, he was swept up into it, as we read later in John’s Gospel, he defends Jesus to those of his own religion who oppose him … and at Jesus’ death, Nicodemus risks his own death, coming with Joseph of Arimathea to take Jesus’ body and prepare it for burial. Nicodemus … this much-maligned questioner, seeker … he got that what this life of faith and service is about … is relationship … up to, and through, the end.
And friends … it is into this same relationship which we are called today. Called by God the Father, gathered through the Word of God that is in, with and through Jesus … his drenching Word of Baptismal promise … his filling Word of the Meal that feeds us and sends us forth … his enfleshed Word, which, who we see and meet in the faces and embraces of each other here … and others out there … as we are sent forth in this Holy Triangulation … the love-force that is our God … Father, Son, and Spirit … spinning out this Holy Love so that it touches us, and moves us to keep going, keeps us going out, keeps us going on …
Hear that call, friends in the Holy Trinity. Hear that call, feel that call, be washed and fed in that call …
… and then, GO … GO FORTH in that call … that call which flows out from the very heart of God … through our hearts and hands … to and through and for others … and draws them into the Holy Triangulation too … which pleases God … Father, Son, and Spirit … which pleases God NO END …
The unending love relationship, in, with, to and for the world God loves.
Amen.
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