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Trinity Sunday John 3/16-18 |
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| Background: Some Catholic theologians
are now arguing that only because God is triune is it possible for Her to relate to us. A
God who was one person, they say, would not be capable of relationships. But precisely
because He has internal relationships is God able to have external relationships too. It’s
kind of a neat idea, but I must leave it to others how it stands up to theological
analysis. It does make the revelation of the Trinity seem reasonable. Why else would God
stun us with this baffling, if dazzling, notion other then to show us that God could love
all beings, even as He loves His Self. Our God is not an isolated entity. Rather She is a
network of relationships and hence all human networks are actually or potentially
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Story: A group of three young
mothers who lived on the same street agreed to pool their time and resources so that they
could help each other take care of their kids and at the same time provide one another
with a little free time. It worked fine, the kids liked it, the fathers liked it (anything
to escape from the demands of child-rearing), and, most important, the women like it. They
discovered in practice what they had heard so often in theory: it’s easier to
do things as members of a community than as isolated individuals. They bragged to their
friends in other streets about how well their little community worked and how everyone
should try to imitate them. But then one of the women began to tally up the hours she gave
the community effort and concluded that she was giving more time than the other two. They
added up their own times and concluded just the opposite. Indeed they accused the first
woman of making up numbers so she could escape her fair share. Since they had all studied
economics in college, they began to shout “free rider” at one another. Soon they
were not speaking to one another. Their community collapsed under the pressures of
success, resentment, and envy – in that order. See, we told you so, said the
neighbors on other streets. Later none of the three could figure out what went wrong.
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