Triangles and a Triune God.

I did ballet until I was 16. I definitely didn’t always love it, but it’s always been the absolute most beautiful thing in the world to me. I’ve never been an amazing talker so I think the fact that dance is communication in the absence of words drew me in a little extra to its beauty. There’s a simple complexity to it. To just watch it you’re simply blown away by the sheer beauty and elegance of what you’re seeing, but when you really contemplate what it takes to produce the complexity of movement that you’re watching you’re mind is absolutely blown. Even as a dancer I don’t always know exactly how all of that works.

I picked up Tim Keller’s Jesus the King (formerly The King’s Cross) this week, and haven’t been able to put it down. Pretty much every idea or concept Keller presents is astonishing and profound and beautiful to me, but the one that got me the most was his comparison of the trinity to a dance. I think it was actually C.S. Lewis that actually pioneered this thought – which just makes it even better – but none the less its an astounding idea. I get this picture of the three persons of the trinity – Father, Son, and Spirit – dressed in flowing white gowns just laughing and twirling around each other. Maybe even grabbing hands every so often or spinning or dipping each other, just have endless amounts of beautiful, graceful fun. (I know this picture is incredibly stereotypical stupidly flawed, but that’s the only picture brain can produce that makes any sense so that’s what I’m gonna go with, cause it’s still beautiful).

Six months ago I got a tattoo. It’s a tiny little triangle on the inside of my wrist (my sweet sister Beth’s artistic representation of the trinity). I originally got it as a kind of memorial/reminder tattoo. I got it to remind me of the pain that I felt, and still feel, surrounding Eric’s death, how I NEVER want to feel that again, and how that solution to that is to spread the news about that amazing power and love of Jesus that saved and changed by life and gives me eternity. A reminder that my life is permanently temporary, but with Christ that doesn't even matter.

The fact that it represented the trinity was just kind of a side note. But in the last six months, specifically the last few weeks, I feel like my eyes have been opened to a totally new and exciting view of the trinity.

I used to think that I was invited into a relationship with Jesus. Which I most definitely am. But the sweetest and coolest thing is that it’s so much more than that. I’m invited into a relationship with all three aspects of God – Father, Son, and Spirit. But it’s so much more than a relationship that I’m invited into, it’s a dance. An elegant, intimate, beautiful, fun, no holds bar dance. I spend my days trying to portray to Jesus and the beauty of a relationship with him to middle school girls, but I forget that's it's actually this incredibly complex, but also beautiful simple dance with a Triune God, not just Jesus.

This picture to me is overwhelming. My amazing and hard to understand triune God wants to engage in a dance with me. This most beautiful and elegant art that I am so in love with. And that is simply incredible to me. 

My sweet ink that reminds me of the beautiful dance with God I get to tell my friends about. Triangles are pretty powerful.