In the gospel story, we learn that God is the Father who in the Spirit did not spare his own Son but freely gave him up for us.  And, God is the Father who, having sent his Son, sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts bringing us into communion with abba Father in the Son.  God’s whole Being as three persons is his Being for others beyond himself. He does not choose to live for himself alone

The gospel story declares clearly that the Triune God is the fellowship-seeking God of love.  What we may miss, however, is that this fellowship-seeking love flows out of the fellowship that God is eternally within himself.  Within the mutual indwelling of the three Persons, each Person is who he is in relation to the other two. The three Persons eternally exist in, through, with and for one another.  And his being for us and with us expresses his own life as three persons who are eternally with and for one another. 

God is not an impersonal and static divine being.  The One Being of God is rather personal, dynamic and relational as three persons who belong inseparably to one another. And this Communal Being of love wants us to belong.  He wants this so much that he has moved beyond himself, through his Son and Spirit to open himself to us and to open us to himself.  He wants to bring us inside the communal love that he is within himsel