The Provocative Dangling Antecedent – It is all about relationship.

A meditation offered at the closing Eucharist of the 2006 Seminarian Leadership Conference -- by Ken Malcolm, Class of 2007

Lessons from Trinity Sunday II

IT is all about relationship

If you could see me the way God sees you, you would not see a person standing here this evening, rather you would see the Trinity.

The most improbable, mismatched, ill-suited three somethings (sic) in a frenetic maddening Perichoresis of Love, Lover, Loved.

A second grader has as much chance of succeeding in a calculus and differential equations as a narcissist has of entering the Holy Trinity.

Let all mortal flesh keep silent

It IS all about relationship

Bind, binding, bound, fixed, held fast

I bind unto myself today, the strong name of the Trinity

Christ be with me

Christ within me

Christ behind me

Christ before me

The Love of God – Not a noun but a verb; reflexive and transitive

Love one another

Be Gentle

Gentleness

Be Kind

Kindness

It is ALL about relationship

Justice? Justice! I don’t trust your justice.

Community, Incarnation

Cana

The 5000

Eat My Flesh!

Last Supper

Be in relationship with the text

It is ALL about relationship

The Perichoresis is not a couple’s dance, it is more like a Mosh pit

It is all ABOUT relationship

When our hearts and our minds come together in our souls

We let in the light

We are a church divided

We are a globe at war

Become the Light

Become the light

But what do we do about evil?

It is all about RELATIONSHIP

Fall, Get Up, Fall Get Up, Fall Get Up

Salvation history ebbs, flows, accelerates, and explodes through Ruth

The Advocate will come to you.

Are you ready?

The pivots on the threshold shook at the voices of those who called

Whom shall I send?

I AM …we are…it is all about relationship