In his passion to set right a disjointed universe, God broke open his own heart in love. The Father sent into the dysfunction of the world, not simply a representative but his own Son, so that he might gather that world into the bliss of divine life.
God’s center—the love between the Father and the Son—is now offered as our center; God’s heart breaks open to include even the worst and most hopeless among us. In so many spiritual traditions, the emphasis is placed on the human quest for God, but this is reversed in Christianity. We do not believe that God is “out there,” like a mountain waiting to be climbed by various religious searchers. On the contrary, God, the hound of heaven comes relentlessly searching after us.
Because of this questing and self-emptying divine love, we become friends of God, and sharers in the communion of the Trinity. This is the essence of Christianity and living the love of the Holy Trinity. Jesus tells the apostles, including you and I today, to “Go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.
We need to understand the radical power this bestows!
Blessed be God the Father, and the Only Begotten Son of God and also the Holy Spirit, three persons, one God, for he has shown us his merciful love. Amen
Smitten With Goodness 