Trinity Sunday
Exodus 34:4b–6, 8–9; 2 Corinthians 13:11–13; John 3:16–18
“For God so loved the world.”
We know the sentence.
Maybe too well.
We have heard it in churches. Seen it on posters. Read it on signs. Sung it in songs.
But do we still feel its wonder?
God loved the world.
Not a perfect world.
Not a clean world.
Not a peaceful world.
This world.
The world of mountains and oceans, rainforests and rice fields, cities and streets, languages and faces.
The world of Taiwan’s coast, Asia’s mountains, children laughing, old people waiting, young people searching.
The world God made beautiful.
And the world we have wounded.
We fill it with plastic. We burn it with greed. We turn creation into profit, and people into tools.
Still, John says:
God loved the world.
He did not look at the world and throw it away.
He gave.
“For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son.”
This is the heart of the Trinity.
The Father gives the Son.
The Son gives himself.
The Spirit pours love into our hearts.
God is not loneliness.
God is communion.
God is love moving outward.
And when love moves outward, it gives.
Real love is never only a feeling.
It costs something.
Parents know this. Caregivers know this. Anyone who has stayed beside the sick, forgiven an enemy, raised a child, or protected the weak knows this.
Love gives.
Sometimes time. Sometimes comfort. Sometimes money. Sometimes pride. Sometimes life itself.
God gave his Son so that we might not perish, but have eternal life.
Eternal life is not only life after death.
It is life filled with God.
Life with depth. Life with mercy. Life with communion. Life that does not rot from selfishness.
Jesus called it life in abundance.
Not a longer emptiness.
A deeper life.
A life that can still sing even when the world does not notice.
This is what faith opens in us.
We begin to see the world as loved by God.
We begin to see others not as enemies, strangers, or problems,
but as people God loves.
People Christ came to save.
People the Spirit can renew.
So if God loved the world, we cannot despise it.
If God gave his Son, we cannot live only for ourselves.
If God is communion, we cannot choose isolation.
Trinity Sunday is not a puzzle to be solved.
It is a life to be entered.
The Father loves.
The Son gives.
The Spirit makes us one.
So let us bring a little goodness into this wounded world.
One act of mercy. One sacrifice of comfort. One word of peace. One hand reaching out. One life protected.
Because whoever loves one person begins to love the world God loves.
And wherever love is given,
the life of the Trinity begins to shine.
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New Revised Standard Version Bible: Catholic Edition, copyright © 1989, 1993
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