The Rev. Rachel Dykzeul

On Trinity Sunday, the preacher reflects on the Trinity not as a doctrine

to be solved but as a mystery to be embraced. Recalling a childhood

conversation with a pastor grandfather who admitted he could not explain

the Trinity, she argues that humility before divine mystery is an essential

part of faith. Drawing on Genesis, she highlights the plural and relational

language used for God and suggests that creation itself reveals a God who

exists in community rather than isolation.

The sermon contrasts this vision with the ancient world’s belief in many

competing gods, using the Babylonian creation story, the Enuma Elish, as an

example. Whereas those gods were violent, transactional, and

self-interested, the Christian understanding of God reveals an eternal

community of love. Because God is love—not merely loving—the Trinity

becomes a model for human relationships, care for creation, and communal

life.

The preacher concludes that the Trinity invites people into a “divine

dance” of relational love. Rather than clinging to certainty or systems of

domination, Christians are called to embrace mystery, diversity, community,

and the fundamental goodness of creation as reflections of God's own life.