Sunday Readings: Proverbs 8.22-31, Romans 5.1-5, John 16.12-15
“The Spirit will glorify me because the Spirit will take what is mine and declare it to you. All that the Father has is mine. That is why I said: ‘It is from me that the Spirit will receive what the Spirit declares to you.’” – John 16.14-15
Scripture preserves the dialogues between God and humans, once new, now familiar. In Sunday’s gospel Jesus talks with his disciples, preparing to leave them. His words strain to express the communion in which he lives with his Father and the Spirit. “All that the Father has is mine.” “The Spirit will take what is mine and declare it to you.”
A word some theologians use to describe the mystery of the Trinity is perichoresis. Peri is the Greek word for around as in perimeter. Chor is the Greek root of the word chore, the circling we do daily to keep up our commitments. The word tries to express the indwelling, intertwining relationships of three in one love.
God is irrepressibly in relationship at the heart of all that is. Father, Son, and Spirit live three in one loving communion so abundantly creative we live in its spill.
What word is God speaking to you? What word do you answer to the dialogue?