Two things have struck me and increased my interest in the Trinity since the BCMS paper got my attention on the topic.
One is the The Holy Trinity Icon and explanation that Aron brought to my attention. The Trinity is pictured around a table, with an open place (with food)...an open place for us. In this concept I sense a new perspective with new potential.
How might that image speak to the nature of God and to the nature of God as Trinity?
Might that open place for us be understood as inherent to the nature of God?
What does it mean to have that open space there for us? Is it an invitation or something else?
If an invitation, what are we invited to do or be? If something else, what?
The other thing that struck me and piqued my interest was the image (called a triquetra) that I found in the lower picture on this page while searching for labyrinths to walk. Apparently this familiar image and the concept of Trinity extends beyond its specifically Christian associations. Finding "Christian" concepts in other contexts tends to increase my sense that the relevance of those concepts isn't limited to a certain sectarian way of framing things, but that they speak to something basic and broad.
How accurate is that sense in this case? If accurate, what is that relevance?
Why has trinity been important in other belief systems as well as in Christianity?
What about reality, what about the Divine does it reflect that I haven't been keying in on?
How might my response to these questions impact my perspective on orienting our understanding of mission to our understanding of the Trinity...?
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