When the fire of God's love burns, strips, and peels away all our material attachments, we enter into a life of Trinitarian detachment. Trinitarian realities are all around us with those who have spiritual eyes to see. There is a poverty of spirit that takes us into a life of humility. There is a purity of heart which cleanses our soul from all the negative and destructive ways of thinking. There is an obedience of the will which abandons itself to God with complete surrender to the Divine Will.
This is the place of abandonment of all outward things so our sole occupation is the inward journey toward God. By giving away all things we gain everything. We release all that divides us so that we many enter into the undivided heart of God. In Trinitarian detachment we discover humility, surrender and intimate love. We find the inner poet, prophet and peacemaker. We come to know more of God intimately. Time is therefore rightly divided or ordered by a beginning, a middle and an end because God is all these and more.
The world is full of goodness, beauty, and truth. A person has a body, mind and spirit which makes that person a living soul. Julian of Norwich says in her Revelations of Love are full of Trinitarian visions. She says that life is make up of three properties.
The first is God made it.
The second is God loves it.
The third is God keeps it.
God is the Maker, Keeper and Lover.
This Trinitarian reality is like the Divine blueprint or a kind of Divine mathematics that orders the universe. Our whole life is in these three. Julian says our being, our fulfilling and in our increasing. The first is nature, the second is mercy and the third is grace. For in the end, God is above all, through all, and in all. In this three-ness we enter into God's oneness. We enter into the unity of heavenly fire, heavenly light and heavenly Spirit. God's heavenly kingdom comes to earth as the Heavenly Jerusalem and we partake fully of the Divine life.
There is a dazzling darkness of God which is the Father's radiant love. There is the ceaseless beauty of the glory of the Son. Finally there is the joy unspeakable of the fullness of the Spirit. The only power that can unchain and move us away from the things of this world is the incomprehensible Trinity whose unmoved being steadies our heart and transforms us in a heavenly creature on earth. When this happens, all creation turns into the garden of God. Our deepest longings for paradise are boundless in the grandeur of Trinitarian oneness with God.
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