| BkII:6.IV.2 | To be able to share, what is shared must be known, and there must also be someone to receive the gift. Giving and receiving in a single act is the relationship of an “I” with a “You” who are one in nature and two in person. When you include the relationship itself, you have the three persons of the Holy Trinity: the divine I, the divine You, and the divine relationship. One divine nature in three. This is relationship. This is union. This is sharing in the Creator's way. Since God has nothing other than Himself, then what God has wanted to share is Himself by creating you and everyone. God is the gift, sharing what He is, and for which creation has been created. Not because of a whim, but because as a divine being, God cannot stop expanding, giving, creating, and extending love again and again in a giving stream that has no beginning or end. Likewise you cannot stop expanding, giving, creating, and extending love. |