six::three

"I was his delight day by day,
playing before him all the while,
playing on the surface of his earth;
and I found delight in the human race."

When we peer into the mysterious Trinity will we be able to comprehend anything? I have heard the Trinity described as Godhead dancing, like an eternal contra dance or a ballet. I can imagine the beauty beheld would still any words that might pour forth, and fill any perceived voids lingering in one's heart. Wisdom is described in the Book of Proverbs as the first born of creation, and she says that she played on the earth before God, delighting herself in humanity. Playing. Wisdom sounds youthful. Should we not be a delight before God as she is?

Yet, the world seems so somber, so morose. To look past the rain as something that gives life to vegetation is a lost discipline; we're simply jealous for blue skies that we're unlikely to enjoy when they make their appearance. Why should it not be this way, though, in a world that has forsaken the Holy Spirit, the unforgivable blaspheme? We have chosen to be unteachable, with closed ears and hearts, assuming our sorrows or bank accounts or positions of authority are ends in themselves. Oh, but the Holy Spirit has been sent! The fullness of Wisdom, a self-sacrificing God, has come to dwell in humanity's bosom. I wonder if Eve and Adam wandered about Eden with childlike wonder. The Eastern Church teaches that they were not created in some "unfallen" state; there was no fall, only childhood with a disastrous step into adulthood. What if humans are meant to play? To skip before God as Wisdom did upon the newly formed Earth? We have set up so many structures that true leisure seems a distant possibility, too many restrictive nurseries. Honestly, such wondering frightens me, for I too am trapped by this adult life. But, I'm hoping that as gray hairs appear so to will the youth that was either stolen or I unwittingly gave up.

Then, I will dance with the Trinity and skip upon the earth with Wisdom.

(Proverbs 8:22-36, Psalm, 117, Galatians 1:1-2, 6-10, Luke 7-1:10