The play in every atom
Dates & Seasons
“Yesterday was the Feast of The Trinity. It is the day we celebrate God’s nature; the day when we grapple intellectually with the idea that God — Father, Son and Holy Spirit — Source of All Being, Eternal Word and Holy Spirit — is three and yet one,” says The Very Rev’d Dr Peter Catt
Yours is the flow
That created kindness
You are the Dance
That ignites all Light
You are the Three
Who contain all Oneness
In You we gaze
With Single sight
Abba
You ground all things eternal
And kiss the earth with glad
embrace
Christ the Son
In a world of sorrows
Transfigures pain with healing
grace
Spirit of Love
Sows new creation
In every soil weak or strong
Your beloved
Mirrors every gesture
In this our wild,
Reconciling song!
God alone
There is no other
Apart from You what can take
form?
You are the play in every atom
Trinity
In You we’re born
This hour brings sorrow and
challenge
Never before have we faced so
much;
Upon Your goodness we’ll
incarnate
Release our hands for Your healing
touch
Bound to You
We’re Your wounded healers
Binding earth
With heaven’s balm
Boundless here in realms
unscripted
Tree of Life
Is your free-verse psalm
And so today we dance Your circle
Rhythm of life Your cadence grows;
Let the circle be unbroken
Drawing all in
To Your radiant flow.
(‘You are the dance’ by Mike Morrell)
Yesterday was the Feast of The Trinity. It is the day we celebrate God’s nature; the day when we grapple intellectually with the idea that God — Father, Son and Holy Spirit — Source of All Being, Eternal Word and Holy Spirit — is three and yet one.
Mike Morrell’s poem captures something of the dynamism that the idea of God being three and yet one seeks to express: flow, dance, kiss, embrace, wildness…
The theological term we use to describe this dynamism is Perichoresis. The three flow into and out of each other. They not only dance with each other but are the dance itself, a dance into which we and created things are both swept up into and formed by; a dance in which we live and move and have our being…(Acts 17.28).
First published in the St John’s Cathedral Precinct e-News on 5 June 2023.
