Scripture: Psalm 133:1-3
Journal: How is your sense of community these days? How committed are you to living life with others, rather than going it on your own? Do you really believe that your own personal relationship with God will never be all that it can be if you are not living it in community? How will you begin to do that?
Reflection: How good and pleasant it is when brothers dwell together in unity. For there the Lord bestows his blessing, even life forevermore. (Psalm 133:1, 3)
When we live in loving
community with those around us, we truly reflect the glory and the beauty of
the Three-in-One God. That is why unity
leads to the bestowing of God’s blessing and life, for it is life the way it
was intended to be. Thus, community (as
is worship) is merely the invitation to enter into the joy and gladness and
delight of the life of God himself. What
an invitation!
R. Thomas Ashbrook asks:
“What might it mean to live fully and freely in the life of the Trinity,
knowing and loving God the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit as they know and love
each other?” I think part of what it might
mean is that we begin to live like that with each other as well. That joining in the Dance of the Trinity
means that we dance with each other that way as well. It is merely a reflection of who he is, and
who we are in him. God cannot help but
bestow his blessing because his very life is flowing in and through and among
us. Which is good and pleasant
indeed.
Prayer
Closing
Prayer: Help me, O God. Give me the grace and the courage to join the
Dance of the Trinity, and to begin to dance with those in my life and world in
that way as well.
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