Trinitarian Love

Jesus lived trinitarian love when He came earth. It was self-emptying (the Greek term is kenosis ... see Philippians 2:5-9). Such is the nature of Trinitarian love. The Father pours Himself into the Son, the Son into the Father, the Spirit being the bond of love between them (John 10).This is the love into which we are invited to abide (John 15). And the promise is that no act of kenosis is ever isolated or wasted no matter how meaningless or unproductive it may seem. Rather it grounds us in the very being of God who is love. Whenever and wherever kenosis is expressed it is a tiny hologram of the Trinity.Do we dare risk such self-emptying? Can we? Not without deep metanoia (change of consciousness). Only then does the 'mind of Christ' become our way of being. This is the invitation of the contemplative life ... living into who we are in Christ. Such surrender, such risk, such relationality bears the fruit of the Spirit.