Colourful Dreamer

Happy Trinity Sunday. This day is a gift. It is a day where we allow ourselves to be overwhelmed by the awe and wonder at the mystery of God who is three in one. It is a day to acknowledge we don’t have all the answers and to learn humility. It is a day to repent of our desire to explain and control God, and instead to have our minds blown by the omnipotence and awesomeness of God. A few years ago, Archbishop Phillip wrote that “(h)owever difficult it might be, to speak of God as Trinity is to speak a wonderful truth, for the Trinity speaks to us of a God who is no distant, remote, isolate monad, but rather proclaims an experience of God who in essence is relational. God as Trinity is God in communion, three in one. Inter-dependence, mutuality, loving in communion are all expressions which flow from our knowledge of God as three in one. St. Augustine of Hippo described the Trinity as “the lover, the beloved and the love between them”. The doctrine of the Trinity was not developed as a...

Trinity Sunday! A gift of a Sunday. An invitation. How do we make sense of the Doctrine of the Trinity? Why even bother trying? Because both Paul and John in today’s readings say that how we understand the Triune God shapes our lifestyle. Who we understand God to be shapes how we respond to God in our everyday lives. All the earliest theologians developed their theologies, including their theology of Trinity, so that people might know God more fully as the author of all goodness and love, and that we might know that we are the object of that goodness and love. They wanted people to know that God the creator and source of all being will not give up on us no matter what we do. They wanted people to know that the Eternal Word became one of us so that we might know we are made in the image of God and become God.   And they wanted people to know that as the Spirit works in us and helps us reflect and meditate on the story of Jesus we might grow in wisdom and love, live lives of goodne...

This sermon can be heard here . Gate Pa – Pentecost Sunday 2021 Readings: Psalm:                          Psalm 104:24-34, 35   First Reading:               Acts 2:1-21                              Second Reading:        Rom 8:22-27                           Gospel:                          John 15:26-27 16:4-15         ...

This Sunday in our Season of Creation is Animal Sunday – a day to take note of the wonderful web of animal life in which we are enmeshed and sustained. Too often animals are seen and treated simply as resources for economic growth. Today’s readings invite us to realise what St. Francis and St. Clare of Assisi realised, that animals of all sizes are more than resources to use as we see fit. They are our brothers and sisters. They, like us, are not simply receivers of God’s goodness but are actively doing God’s ongoing work of creating and giving life by their very existence. This Sunday we are offered an opportunity to consider the effect our actions and climate change are having on our brothers and sisters and that web of life. In light of that I wonder in what ways our longing for the coming of God’s justice and peace includes a world where ALL living creatures, great and small, have the resources to experience fullness of life. Is this an example of where we need to enter ...