posted October 27, 2017 04:24 PM
Delightful, Lei_Kuei!! I'm going to have to do the *ahem* Required Reading first...
I like your God/Jesus Trinity graphic.
STORY .....
Reminded me of a time when I was 7 or 8 years old.
Our family was visiting extendeds who had rented a large vacation cabin on the shores of a lake up north.
I was in the placid waters, up to my neck/chin. My little feet traveled and felt the silt-y sandy bottom, objects explored with foot/feet along the way... Not seeing what I felt, but imagination conjured the familiar.
As I slowly cruised along in shoulder-deep waters, my left foot discovered a slim metal pipe. My foot explored it for a bit. Forwards, back, surrounds. My mind could picture how it lay, and connected up to the cabin-area.
Suddenly.... I spontaneously started thinking about the Holy Trinity.
"The 3-God in ONE".
.... And in a cosmically weird and strange moment, I "Got" it. I "Understood" without needing the words to be present for it. And that Moment hung with me in a virtual-cloud-way... no words. Just "presence" of what had been Downloaded.
I spent the rest of the weekend (and days) IN that nice wordless Cloud Reveal/revelation.
So... Time-wise...
Either, the school year had already BEGUN, or, this had been a weekend away DURING the start of school? (US Labor Day weekend?)
I was enrolled in a catholic elementary parochial school.
The classroom was thick with kids.
I sat all the way over on the Teacher's right, row next to the windows/bookshelves, first or second seat.
The nun walked back and forth in front of us, in her full habit, acting so nunly~nice.
She asked the boys and girls,
"WHO can explain The Trinity to me?"
Well!!!!!, like, o.m.g. *lightbulb full-on*
"Just happened" that I had personally been cogitating this VERY thing, steeped deeply in this WHOLE concept for days it seems!!!
My little arm and hand very Happily shot straight-up in the air, soooo glad to be able to divulge, to Deliver what I had inside me. Ready to start the big conversation about 'what was IN me', about what had been sparked/revealed/downloaded and Clear to my excited soul?????
She looks at me.
Countenance changed.
She changed.
She got realll MEAN!!!!!!!
Her voice snapped in an awful-coarse tone, and she harshly retorts to me -- (and all in the class, to my humiliation!!)--, that NOBODY KNOWS THE MYSTERY behind THE TRINITY.
End of convo.
Shut-downnnn... wounded!!!
My mind had been shocked.. and it drifted on to other topics a while, as she resumed her paces, trying to 'explain' that (permanently?) unknown mystery.
Sometimes??? I wonder what could have happened had I had a spiritually aware and enlightened Knowing Teacher when I was at vulnerable tender moments of age. ....
I would have been interested in whether or not I COULD perhaps have been able to put words to it--- words for 'what' I captured in that mystical coveted moment'.
1 Corinthians 13:13
And now these 'three' things remain:
Faith, Hope, and Love.
And the Greatest of these is LOVE.
(music) The Greatest of These (symphonic band, soloists, and children's choir; lyrics based on 1 Corinthians "Love" chapter) [5:43] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=giou1idPFN0
Found above song.
The scripture they're presenting has been coming before me all week, in small sudden ways.... like people seeing angel numbers, looping numbers.
Thing is.... The kids in the choir? ..
When I was THEIR age, my mind was engaged in thoughts about God a lot... (Little Saggi Ascendant??)
Nature made SUCH an impression on me. The tops of rows of pine trees against the golds and ultramarine blues of a sunset.... These things got etched in my memory, and thrill me in the DEEPEST way, wordlessly.
The VERY FIRST "true" revelation I'd ever caught, where I had WORDS to match virtual-download to... was that sudden moment of release/relief that "God Is Love" ....
I was in my (latter?) tween years.
Still gets my eyes a bit watery thinking of it.
So REAL.... and Surreal.
- http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+Corinthians+13&version=NIV
"1 Corinthians 13" {The Love Chapter}
New International Version (NIV)
If I speak in the tongues[a] of men or of angels,
but do not have love,
I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal.
2 If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge,
and if I have a faith that can move mountains,
but do not have love,
I am nothing.
3 If I give all I possess to the poor
and give over my body to hardship that I may boast,
but do not have love,
I gain nothing.
4 Love is patient,
love is kind.
It does not envy,
it does not boast,
it is not proud.
5 It does not dishonor others,
it is not self-seeking,
it is not easily angered,
it keeps no record of wrongs.
6 Love does not delight in evil
but rejoices with the truth.
7 It always protects,
always trusts,
always hopes,
always perseveres.
8 Love never fails.
But where there are prophecies, they will cease;
where there are tongues, they will be stilled;
where there is knowledge, it will pass away.
9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part,
10 but when completeness comes, what is in part disappears.
11 When I was a child,
I talked like a child,
I thought like a child,
I reasoned like a child.
When I became a man,
I put the ways of childhood behind me.
12 [b]For now we see only a reflection
as in a mirror;
then we shall see face to face.
Now I know in part;
then I shall know fully,
even as I am fully known.
13 And now these three remain:
faith, hope and love.
But
the greatest of these is LOVE.
So.... Didn't mean to pull things TOO off-topic! LOL.
There IS a TRINITY .... even in Terminator....
it all distills down to Love
and
Acts of Love.