These are the questions that Rev. Donna has been asking this week. What does she mean by wobbly? The least stable, the one that feels the least secure, that causes the most fear on a bumpy path. Which wheel gets the least attention at Cambie Village Church, is most likely to cause the most insecurity on a bumpy path?
I can’t answer for the rest of you, but for me it is definitely the “Holy Spirit wheel”. Why?
Father - the creator of all the beauty I find in nature. I can see, smell, hear, taste and feel the physical evidence.
Son - Jesus, who I met in the Sunday School books I read when I was so young…pictures of fishing…songs like “Jesus loves me this I know”. We have a long relationship.
Holy Spirit - Jesus said he would send us an Advocate, and although there are many mentions of Spirit in the bible, it’s a bit like trying to catch a moonbeam in my hand.
We’ll be focusing on the Trinity this Sunday. We will also be gathering at the Lord’s table. The word Trinity is not found in the Bible but the reality is there. In John 14 (at the Last Supper) we can see the dance between Them.
“If you love me, you will keep my commandments. And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Advocate, to be with you forever. This is the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive because it neither sees him nor knows him. You know him because he abides with you, and he will be in you.
“I will not leave you orphaned; I am coming to you. In a little while the world will no longer see me, but you will see me; because I live, you also will live. On that day you will know that I am in my Father, and you in me, and I in you. They who have my commandments and keep them are those who love me, and those who love me will be loved by my Father, and I will love them and reveal myself to them.”
“I have said these things to you while I am still with you. But the Advocate, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you everything and remind you of all that I have said to you. Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled, and do not let them be afraid.
Some days, my Trinitarian tricycle feels particularly wobbly. And then something happens that tells me that the Spirit is alive and well and attending to me. Today it was reading this:
Give up your wish
to be a spiritual whiz.
Even the greatest sage
must learn ignorance,
must go out again
and practice not knowing,
address a stone,
innocent of all but the word:
Who are you?
True wisdom is not knowing,
but attending.
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Steve Garnaas-Holmes
Unfolding Light
www.unfoldinglight.net
