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Today the church celebrates the Trinity. The unimaginable Unity of 3 almighty beings, Jesus, God and the Holy Spirit as separate and yet 1.<\/p>\nToday the church celebrates the Trinity. The unimaginable Unity of 3 almighty beings, Jesus, God and the Holy Spirit as separate and yet 1.<\/p>\n
Our first hymn describes and we sang praises to the Trinity in a song that has been sung by Christians for over 200 years.<\/p>\n
In the collect for today we heard that God gives us grace through our faith to be able to acknowledge the glory of the Trinity and that if we stay true to that faith we will see the three-in-one at our end.<\/p>\n
Wasn\u2019t the Psalm powerful? We read aloud with Sharon about the power of God. As is often done, God\u2019s power is described in terms of nature. \u201cThe voice of the Lord splits the flames of fire\u201d and \u201cmakes oak trees writhe\u201d and yet he gives strength to his people (that\u2019s us) and gives us the blessing of peace.<\/p>\n
The Old Testament lesson tells the story of a man who saw the Lord and was terrified because he knew he had \u201cunclean lips\u201d and was unworthy to see the Lord. One of the seraphs in attendance touched his lips with a live coal and declared his sin blotted out.<\/p>\n
The most important part of this reading for me is the last line (as I try to build my life on it):<\/p>\n
God asks \u201cWhom shall I send and who will go for us?\u201d The man replies (as I do) \u201cHere am I; send me!\u201d<\/p>\n
The reading from Romans reminds us to live our lives led by the Spirit. We are all drawn away from the Trinity by human failings \u2013 lust, greed, fear, arrogance, etc. But if we allow ourselves to be led by the Spirit- trust in the Trinity- we are children of God.<\/p>\n
The Gospel reading is a story about the Pharisee named Nicodemus who was trying to understand Jesus\u2019 saying \u201cNo one can enter the kingdom of God without being born of water & the Spirit\u201d. We are born from above through Baptism and our acceptance of the Holy Spirit.<\/p>\n
Once I quit talking, we will sing about trusting the Trinity to guide us in all we do and to give us strength to handle all things.<\/p>\n
We are SO blessed! On the bleakest day we can reach out and there is love- maybe family, maybe friends, maybe strangers or fellow Faith church goers- but DO reach out. Give love a chance AND when you are feeling and doing better \u201cpay it forward\u201d (loved that movie). We will be the arms, voices, listening ears for the Trinity. Here we are. Send us.<\/p>\n
Ellen Green, Faith Episcopal Poulsbo<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Today the church celebrates the Trinity. The unimaginable Unity of 3 almighty beings, Jesus, God and the Holy Spirit as separate and yet 1. Our first hymn describes and we sang praises to the Trinity in a song that has<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-homily","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithpoulsbo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithpoulsbo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithpoulsbo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithpoulsbo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithpoulsbo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1023"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/faithpoulsbo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1030,"href":"https:\/\/faithpoulsbo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023\/revisions\/1030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithpoulsbo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithpoulsbo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithpoulsbo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}