Trinity Sunday 2023nYr A

 Who is God talking to?
Have you ever noticed that in this version of the Creation story, when it comes time for the creation of humanity, God says, “Let us create humankind in OUR image.” Our image? Who the heck is God talking to? After all, it was from God—the Creator of all Things— that all other things, all matter of all things, came into being.
So…Who is God talking to?
That right there is an excellent endorsement of the Holy and Undivided Trinity: One God. Who was God talking to? Godself…as depicted for us as The Trinity.
Biblical scholars will tell you that the authors of Genesis were, in this verse, including a series of minor gods that were “helpers” of the Big Kahuna, others say the reference is to pagan gods, referenced to give this God— The God— Our God—more credibility with the intended audience.
But since I’m no scholar, I feel free to consider the most obvious answer to just who God is talking to: The rest of the interconnected,always in existence, never separate parts of the Trinty—
the incarnated God, the part of God that will take on the form of a first century Palestinian man some millennia later;
and the Sustaining God—the part of God that, as the Holy Spirit, enflames and inspires us, igniting brighter and brighter within and among community.
    I love it that when this incredible, description-defying source of all Love and Light created the final piece of creation—humanity— our God looked at how God’s very self is manifested—Creator, Son and Holy Spirit all swirling about in constant motion, always one and yet also with individual chracteristics and personalities—- and said, “I want this for them, I want me/us in them, and so I will make them in our/“my” image.
But still, image?
What is the image of the Three in One God at the time of Cretion?  I mean, God sure wasn’t taking selfies.
How can we be created in the image of one who has never been seen?
But maybe…maybe the God of Genesis isn’t speaking of skin and bones…maybe God is speaking of our souls. If our souls are made in the image of God: Father, Son and Holy Spirit—Creator, Redeemer and Sustainer the Holy and Undivided Trinity: One God— then our souls are of God. Our souls are God.
Our souls are God.
Let that simmer for a bit.
    Perhaps, as I’ve preached on previous Trinity Sundays, our souls, our very beings are at their best, at their pinnacle when we, like the Godhead in whose image we are created, are in relationship with one another, when we connect with each other in good times and in bad, when we don’t move ahead without making sure we are bringing others along with us. When we don’t live in silos built of our fear and jealousy but live in the expansive Love that is the Trinity: three beings working in collaboration with each other, neither member trying to dominate but all trying to collaborate for when we live in communion we’re existing in and of God’s image.
Without a true and honest connection with one another, a connection that doesn’t exist on “if you get somethng, then I lose something,” how can we live into the image God creeated us to live into?  
Who is God talking to who? God in three persons, Blessed Trinity is talking to you and to me.
Always and forever.
Amen.