You are loved, and you are love!

You can't parent, or be in a relationship, or even work productively without listening, sharing or being present.

The same is true of God. He does not save the world from a distance. He enters into it.

"For God so loved the world..."

Love is about moving towards someone. Love isn't a stationary concept: It reaches out. It gives itself away. It breaks itself for others.

All of these things we can see, if we look, in what God does.

The Father sends the Son, not because the world has earned it, but because the world is loved.

How easy is it to reduce our Church, our society, our world into rules.

Yet Christianity begins with a relationship.

Before there was a commandment, there was love.

Before there was a Church, there was a Father who loved a Son and a Son who trusted a Father.

I'm the Gospel reading from today, we are reminded that the relationship between Father and Son is perfect love, perfect trust, and perfect self-giving.

The Father wants everything good for the Son. The Son wants nothing more than to remain close to the Father. The Holy Spirit is the living love that binds them together.

And the best part: God's Grace invites us into that relationship.

Being part of that beautiful and perfect unity of love brings it's own joys and responsibilities, we have to bring others into it as well.

In our relationships as parents, partners and workers. Saint Joseph, again, is the perfect example of this in a real and practical sense.

Most of us spend our lives looking for belonging. We want to be known, accepted, valued, and loved. We search for it in friendships, family, work, success, and approval.

These things matter, but none of them can completely satisfy the deepest longing of the human heart.

That longing exists because we were made for relationship with God, and through that, for relationship with each other.

The Trinity is not some complicated theological puzzle. At its heart, it tells us that reality itself is built on love and relationship.

God is not lonely. God is love. And we are created to share in that love.

That changes how we see other people!

If we are made in the image of a God whose very nature is relationship, then we cannot flourish alone.

Faith is never and should never be just "me and God."

The closer we grow to God, the more we learn to love and grow closer to others.

We become more patient, more forgiving, more generous, more willing to give ourselves away.

More ready to break ourselves for others.

Every healthy friendship, every act of kindness, every moment of genuine forgiveness gives us a tiny glimpse of what God is like.

And that is Everyman Theology: the simplest theology: real and lived Theology.

You were created by love.

You are sustained by love.

You are saved through love.

And every time you choose to love another person well, you reflect something of the God who first loved you.

As we hear at the end of Les Miserables,

"To love another person is to see the face of God!"

Go and find God in your partner, in your children and in your colleagues.