![]() Jenna Keiper and Leslye Colvin, 2021, triptych art, United States. Image credit: Brian McLaren, Untitled 4-6 (detail), 2021, photograph, United States. Meet the team behind the Daily Meditations.Read Richard on the life-giving nature of love, and Ilia Delio on the evolutionary “love energy of God.”.Heidi Russell, The Source of All Love: Catholicity and the Trinity (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 2017), xvii, 171, 174. Pope Francis, Laudato Si’: On Care for Our Common Home, 240. That unfolding of love means I am empowered to live out my life in relationships that are loving, that engender mutuality and equality in the world. Our altered brains will change our actions. Our hearts can literally change our brains. Through that meditative prayer, we will come to better enact Love in the world. I can meditate on a God who is Love, who has enfolded Godself as Love at the core of who I am and empowered me to participate in the unfolding of that Love in the world. We can choose to exercise the unfolding of love in our lives. Everything is interconnected, and this invites us to develop a spirituality of that global solidarity which flows from the mystery of the Trinity. In this way, they make their own that trinitarian dynamism which God imprinted in them when they were created. The human person grows more, matures more and is sanctified more to the extent that he or she enters into relationships, going out from themselves to live in communion with God, with others and with all creatures. To affirm God as Trinitarian Love means that our relationships with each other have the potential to mirror such divine, three-fold love. As the body of Christ, this community is then called to be the ongoing presence of God as Love in the world. The Source of Love is also continually enacted in the Spirit of Love, which is present in the world and active in the heart of all believers forming the Christian community into the body of Christ. ![]() The world was created in and through that Word of Love, and that Word of Love has been spoken into the world in the person of Jesus of Nazareth. That Source of all love has been revealed in the Word of Love. God the Father is the Unoriginate Source of Love, simply meaning the ultimate source, the source that has no origin itself because it is the origin of all love that exists. The primary analogy for God as Trinity offered is Source of Love, Word of Love, and Spirit of Love. Shifting from language of being and person to a concept of God as Love can help counteract this tendency to make God in our own image. The use of concepts such as being and person in our trinitarian theology have too often led to an understanding of God as a being or a person, or worse as three beings or three persons. Theology needs to move away from concrete images of God in which God is pictured as an old man in the sky. In the twenty-first century a new understanding of Trinity must be found that allows Christians to reconcile their image of God with a contemporary, scientific worldview. Professor Heidi Russell describes a way of speaking about the Trinity as Love that might allow modern Christians to connect more intimately to God.
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