Dancing with God

Rublev’s Icon of the Holy Trinity

An offering for Trinity Sunday

In the beginning

God gathered God’s self together

to create the universe

Fashioning with goodness the sky

with its galaxies and constellations

its suns and moons

its  light and darkness.

And there was some fun and mischief along the way

as God messed about with incredible light shows

and sent the planets into orbit

and played around with tides and seasons 

and day and night.

And then God created the earth

with its mountains and valleys

its oceans and streams

its continents separated by vast seas and deserts

its forests and ice caps

and plains of fertile land.

And God enjoyed attending to detail - 

the bumps and the curves

the flow from one landscape to the next

the separation of water from land

and earth from sky.

And God loved that beautiful world and wanted to share it.

So God created animals

For the hills and the plains

for the sky and the sea

for above and below the earth.

Each with a place and, largely, a purpose.

And then, with a flourish, 

involving dust and breath,

God created human beings

who would care for all of creation

for all that God had made

and who would be co- workers with God 

in nurturing and sustaining creation.

God saw that it was good and delighted in all of creation.

As it was in the beginning, so it is now.

God delights in us.

Desiring nothing more than relationship 

Inviting us to be part of

the divine dance

The dance of Creator, Redeemer, Sustainer

God invites us to be caught up

in the mystery that is God...

Instead, we spend our time 

trying to unravel that mystery

We tie ourselves in knots

instead of enjoying the different kind of knowing

that is offered by God

We distance ourselves

rather than entering into relationship

We ponder how we can change the world

when God’s invitation is simply to dance....

In that dance we discover compassion

that moves us to care for creation.

In that dance we discover anger

that fuels us to root out injustice.

And, in that dance

we discover freedom

made up of Love, Joy, Peace, Patience, Goodness, 

Faithfulness, Gentleness, 

the fruits of God-control,

the elements of the dance

that sustain the world.

God’s laughter and delight 

and tears and compassion 

form the rhythm that draws us in

and sends us out 

to dance.