Of Love and Three

June 12, 2022

by Deacon Andy Cirmo

This gospel reflection is based on John 16:12-15.

Of Love and Three

Like the dawn, day and dusk
The gift of your time so repeats
Bringing new beginning and end
As the newness day we greet

In our birth and life and death
Our journey passes by each day
Heading always toward newness
Opening another surprising way

As with water and earth and sky
All time and space are from Thee
So gifted to us out of wondrous love
In beginning, redemption, eternity

And as so birth and life and death
Mark the passage of our time
Eternal and pure truth remains
The love of the One divine

Oh what a blessing it is to us
Love itself as revealed in Three
At beginning, over time and end
Exists the One Love that is to be

Oh blessed and Holy Trinity
Mystery to us so revealed
In Giver, Teacher and Love
Our existence eternally sealed

As in tree and branch and leaf
We live and grow and give
Rooted in love, fed with grace
So too we receive as we give

God of love and grace
Divine mystery of three
Yet One in all and evermore
I pray today to Thee

God of wonder so revealed
Beyond my mind to see
Such breadth of purest love
I pray to today to Thee

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