Sunday we celebrated many things in church. It was Confirmation Sunday, so our main focus was the celebration of that moment of passage when our youth take on adult responsibility for their faith and their church. This was also the Sunday that the UCC had invited us to begin a Sacred Conversation on Racism. Added to that, it was Trinity Sunday. While it was Trinity Sunday that went largely unnoticed as part of our worship, it was also Trinity Sunday that held it all together. The Trinity is one of the more confusing concepts to understand or explain. Largely, because our language and science and minds are too limited to explain a seemingly paradoxical concept. And although no metaphor or explanation is adequate, there is one that I like. The Trinity holds up that essential understanding of God as love. It is a love that is so pure and so potent that it can only exist in relationship. God is one and God is three; One being who exists, who must exist, as a relationship. Mother/Father to Son to Holy Spirit to Mother/Father to Son and so on and so on. That is why the Greatest Commandment in Scripture (the one that summarizes all other scripture and indeed all of our faith) is a commandment of Love. It is to Love God with all your heart, soul, mind and strength and to Love you Neighbor as Yourself.
It is this love that makes a Sacred Conversation on Racism not only possible, but absolutely necessary. It is this love that enables us to embrace young men and women into our community of faith and entrust the future and the present of the church over to them. It is this love that ignites a holy flame of faith, compassion and justice that lights our journey.
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