Monday, June 3, 2013

The Most Holy Trinity



John 16: 12-15
May 26, 2013

He loves to tinker with gadgets.
He is fascinated by the inner workings of machines, how the gears and levers of mechanisms connect and work together to make things happen.

While thumbing through one of his technology magazines, he finds the schematic for a clock that operates not by batteries or electric current but by a complex series of weights and pulleys.
A new project!
So begins many hours of constructing the clock's cabinet, fashioning and fitting the necessary gears and wheels, devising and measuring the weights and chains.

When he has finally finished, the clock works well for a while, but stops within a few hours.
So he carefully takes apart every piece and refits them.
Again the clock works well for some time, but, again, stops.
He spends what seems like an eternity studying every piece of wood and metal, but still the clock will not run consistently

His loving wife, who is usually very understanding of his projects, urges him to give it up.
When she finds the pieces of the clock in a box under his workbench after a few weeks, she thinks that he has finally admitted defeat, so she hauls the carton of clock remnants out to the trash.
 But he quickly realizes the box is missing and immediately rescues the broken timepiece.

He hasn't given up.
He had discovered that one of the gear wheels was not ground properly - it did not fit as tightly with the other gears as it should to run evenly and consistently.
With the help of a machinist friend, he fashions, by hand, a new metal wheel that fits the clock's mechanism perfectly.

The clock, re-created from its brokenness, redeemed from the trash heap, now hangs in their living room, keeping perfect time
C under the watchful eye of its creator.

Like the tinkerer, God refuses to give up on his creation.
God does not seek our destruction but our redemption;
God finds no satisfaction in sufferings we inflict upon ourselves,
but rejoices in our making things right.
Despite our ignorance of God,
despite our displacement of God with more immediately comforting and less mysterious concepts,
despite our outright rejection of God,
God continues to call us back, always making the first move to being reconciled with us and his creation.

This Sunday of the Trinity (on this first week after the Great Fifty Days of Easter) focuses our attention on the great, profound love of God for his creation
a love too deep, too limitless for us to fully grasp and understand.
May we realize the presence and availability of hope, purpose and healing from the God who creates,
the God who redeems,
the God who breathes life and love into every molecule of creation.
In the name of the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit

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