‘Love one another’, Jesus said. Holiness is other-centred, taking the attention off ourself. Why? Because God is other-centred. God is turned towards us, towards creation. In the doctrine of the Trinity, which is the Christian way of trying to understand or describe what God is like, we have this image of the three persons of the Trinity who turn towards each other: the Father turned towards the Son in absolute attention, absolute love, and the Son turned towards the Father in reciprocating that love, returning that love, and the Holy Spirit turned towards both of them. So they all turn towards each other continuously. It’s a dynamic, a dynamo of love.
( Christian Life in the Light of Christian Meditation 2, Laurence Freeman )
