God is a community of love — not an isolated being, but a community of persons. If God is love, God must be personal. Love cannot be impersonal; that’s a contradiction in terms. God is for us not something way beyond our ability to experience or understand. The word ‘God’ is a symbol of wholeness and of the fulfilment of the human person in the divinised state. And God is a wonderful symbol for us of the sacredness of human relationships. The Trinity – Father, Son and Spirit – the relationships that form this mystery of God: love receiving and giving and transcending itself in ecstasy.
(Aspects of Love 2 by Laurence Freeman OSB )
