June
Trinity
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| The Ascension, Dali |
John
17: 6-11
Father, I have revealed your name
and your being to all human beings whom you have led through destiny to me.
They were yours; they lived out of the powers that worked in folk and family,
and now you have given them to me, and into my working that lives in the Self,
and they have kept your word in their inmost being. Thus they have recognized
how all the spiritual power that you have given me truly proceeds from you; for
all the creative spiritual power that you have given me, I have brought to
them.
They have taken it up into
themselves and have recognized that in truth I come from you, and they have
gained insight, and trust that I have been sent by you. I pray to you for them
as individual human beings; they who are to live out of the power of the self,
as individuals, I pray to you for them; not for mankind in general, but for the
human beings which you have given me. For they belong to you, just as
everything which is mine is yours, and what is yours is mine, and the light of my
being can shine in them [I am revealed in them].
I no longer live in the outer world, but they live in this world.
My whole being is devoted to you.
And I am coming to you. Holy Father, you
who give healing to the world, keep in your name and in your being all whom you
have given to me, so that they may be one even as we also are one.
1st June Trinity
John 17: 6 – 11
Some flowers form a
single blossom, like the tea rose. Others bloom in clusters, like sunflowers.
Although each blossom is beautiful by itself, the whole cluster forms a larger
entity. Each blossom in the cluster contributes to a greater whole, a greater
beauty, and a greater truth.
This truth is that as beautiful as each of our souls may be,
we are come together in order to form a greater whole. And this greater whole
is the place where Christ can work differently than He does in single individuals.
Single hearts are to become a vessel,
a grail chalice, into which is poured
the wine of His love. The community
is to become the greater vessel through which the wine of His love is poured out into the world. Together we can form
a greater, more creative, more potent force in the world. For Christ said:
“…all the creative spirit power that you [Father] have given
me, I have brought to them. They have taken it up into themselves…I pray to You
for them….They live in the world. Holy Father, You who give healing to the
world, keep in Your name and Your being all whom You have give to me, so that
they may be one, even as we also are one.” John 17: 8-12
We come together in worship, dedicating our individual selves
to receiving the Spirit of the Father and Son. We dedicate, consecrate
ourselves as a whole to pouring out their Spirit into the world. The Spirit that they pour into our hearts is
the creative spirit of love, of healing compassion, of service toward all on
earth. The love we have received is the love we will pour out into the world. [1]
[1]
The illustration is the seed head of a sunflower. Note how the
greater pattern, formed by the arrangement of individual seeds in the middle, rays outward.
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