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Credulous: A Journey Through Life, Faith, and the Bulletin
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Two decades ago, I saw three everywhere. Father, Son, Holy Spirit. Beginning, middle, end. Proton, neutron, electron. Mind, heart, body. Yesterday, today, tomorrow. Mother, father, child. I was settled in three. The triangle is the most stable shape, and my God was entirely stable.
Now, I am seeing plus one and it is wrecking me. I am the plus one. You are the plus one. It is the gospel message. The stability of the Trinity has become the rhombus, the square, the diamond, and the trapezoid. And it is beautiful.
And now, in this puddle of disorientation, I have found peace in abundance.
God is abundant. Life is abundant.
Come, cast into the abundant deep.
Now, I am seeing plus one and it is wrecking me. I am the plus one. You are the plus one. It is the gospel message. The stability of the Trinity has become the rhombus, the square, the diamond, and the trapezoid. And it is beautiful.
And now, in this puddle of disorientation, I have found peace in abundance.
God is abundant. Life is abundant.
Come, cast into the abundant deep.
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Andrea L. Lingle
Andrea Lingle is a writer, lay theologian, and editor. She lives on a cul-de-sac in North Carolina with her family and neighbors. She is a life-long United Methodist, reader, gardener, and hoper.
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