Hi everyone,
So Father’s Day is coming up, and it is landing on Holy Trinity Sunday. This happens every now and then and honestly, I think it’s appropriate. Just like how this year Good Shepherd Sunday landed on Mother’s Day, there is something about these themes that really lend itself to each other.
An example of what I mean is that often our daughter would be clowning around acting goofy, and I would say something like, “why are you such a weird kid?” and she’d clap back with “because I’m your daughter and I got my weird genes from you.” I don’t know where this girl learned her science, but I’m pretty sure that’s not how it works.
But just because it isn’t in our genes, it is in our influence and effect. Like of I do see similarities in our kids’ personalities and our own. I see similarities in me and my parents, as much as many of us might shudder at the thought. And I can even see how our daughter gets her sense of humour from me, and how I got it from my dad. This dry sense of humour that really only we laugh at and makes those around us (especially for our spouses for my dad and me) roll their eyes.
That is the nature of the relationship. That is the nature of family. That is the nature of being close and living together with similar minds. And to me, that is what the Trinity, to a certain extent Father’s Day, and all of us together in community as one church is all about.
Here are the readings for next week:
Proverbs 8:1-4, 22-31
Psalm 8
Romans 5:1-5
John 16:12-15
And a video of the readings being read:
There is no one specific place in our bibles that spells out exactly what the Trinity is. But every book, every story, pretty much every page will reveal to us clues of the closeness of God, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit. There are examples of how they work together, work separately, and as one and as three. The image of God can be seen everywhere.
In scripture. In our communities. In us.
And that influence, that closeness, that love permeates in us and through us. It pierces into our relationships. It leaves us changed and closer to God every day.
So for this Holy Trinity Sunday, I hope that we remember the closeness that we are invited to, the community that we are welcomed in, and this family where we all belong, and how it moves us, empowers us, and reveals to us the love that is shared within the Trinity of Parent, Child, and Spirit that joins them and us all together.
Thanks be to God! Have a great week, everyone!