the universe of space & time did not arrive by chance
but as the three, in love & hope, made room within the dance A sermon for Holy Trinity Sunday Isaiah, plucked up from obscurity and placed in the Holy of Holies, and there, found himself face to face with the glory of the Lord. Poor Isaiah, there in the presence of God, unable to do anything but mourn; after all, he was a man of unclean lips, living amongst an unclean people… Then there was Paul. Paul, that bounty-hunter of the fledging Jesus-movement. Humiliated Paul, knocked from his high-horse by a wall of light, who, when he tried to get up, found that he couldn’t see a thing anymore… And Nicodemus. Nicodemus, that Pharisee of some prominence, who was fascinated by this one some people called “messiah.” Bewildered Nicodemus, who went to the rabbi by night to question him, and left, even more in the dark, by what he heard that wandering Galilean preach… They all, and perhaps you too, encountered “ God .” Capital “g,” God. God, scriptures aptly describe...
