🕊️ The Trinity Isn’t a Puzzle — It’s a Dance
Paraphrased and edited from Rev. B. Swan, seeker of the sacred in the strange
Chapter 22
A pastor opens Sunday school:
“Let’s talk about three in one and one in three.”
🥚 First analogy: an egg — shell, white, yolk.
All egg. All God? ❌ Nope. All heresy.
A shell isn’t an egg.
💧 Next? Water, ice, steam. Another classic.
But that’s modalism — God showing up in 3 forms, but never at once.
Ice isn’t steam and water at the same time.
🤔 Be honest — the Trinity can feel like a dusty, inherited doctrine.
Confusing. Patriarchal.
Father, Son, and Holy Spirit?
But hear this:
The Trinity isn’t about theological gymnastics.
It’s about 💗 love.
It’s about 🌿 relationship.
It’s about 🪞 identity.
✨ God is Holy Mystery.
Beyond knowing.
Above easy definition.
Yet in love, God seeks relationship.
From that, everything flows.
🧩 The Trinity isn’t a riddle to solve — it’s love refusing to be flattened.
We say God is One.
We say God is Three.
What we mean is:
God is love.
Wholly. Radically. Relationally.
🌀 Creator. Redeemer. Sustainer.
Source of Life. Living Word. Bond of Love.
No metaphor is enough.
But in the three, we glimpse the One.
🔦 Like a prism turning in light — each angle reveals a truth about God.
To say “God is triune” is to say:
God is not static.
Not distant.
Not locked in creeds.
God is movement. Mutuality. Dance. 💃🏽🕺🏽
And we are invited in.
👶 God creates and calls us beloved.
✝️ God redeems and walks in our woundedness.
🔥 God sustains us with courage and compassion.
God doesn’t want just survival.
God wants flourishing — for all creation.
💥 If you’ve tried to “solve” the Trinity, you’ve likely been frustrated.
One = three? Three = one?
But step back.
What if the Trinity is not a logic problem…
…but an invitation?
God has never been alone.
And you were never meant to be. 🙏
⚖️ The Trinity is unity without uniformity.
Diversity without division.
A relationship where no one is erased — and no one stands alone.
🪞 Your individuality reflects God.
Your voice. Your questions. Your contradictions.
Not flaws — holy design.
🌍 And still, the Trinity doesn’t let us settle.
This dance is a movement of justice.
Of liberation.
Of showing up in a broken world.
💔 God doesn’t just comfort the broken.
God becomes broken.
Thirsts. Weeps.
Not from weakness — but from outrageous love.
😮 The scandal of the Trinity?
That God might need us.
Because love without vulnerability… isn’t love at all.
💞 God is relationship.
And in that divine love, we find our calling.
🕊️ The Trinity isn’t a relic.
It’s the rhythm of love itself.
A pattern we’re invited to follow.
Where difference is delight.
Where justice is embodied.
Where love becomes the shape of God.
👣 If we’re bold enough to join the dance…
We may just find —
There’s room for every single one of us.
Wishing you a great day!
Philemon