For those who love mysteries, there is none greater than The Most Holy Trinity. Only God has the answer. And though He shares it in so many different ways through what the Father, Son and Holy Spirit do for us, it befuddles us. We spend an inordinate amount of time looking to make sense of its components (three Persons in one God) than accepting what They accomplish together and individually.
It is early morning of Tuesday, October 6, 2015, and I am staring up into the sky on the top of Mount Olivet (Mount of Olives) in Bethany, Israel, next to the Chapel of the Ascension. I am imagining that I am one of the Apostles looking at Jesus as he ascends into heaven. This happened after I exited a 12 by 12 meter octagonal structure known as a martyrium (memorial) in which can be found a glass-encased rock on which rests the footprint of Jesus prior to His ascension into heaven.
This is my favorite verse from the Bible, John 15:16a. It is the one that clarifies God’s love for me and is not based on my initial belief that I am the one who sets the parameters for my relationship with God, but that He does out of His love. I am truly created in the divine image and likeness of God and called to be His disciple.
