James Jarrett · @JamesCJarrett
24th Mar 2017 from TwitLonger
Affirming, Denying, Reconciling: The Law of Three
A seed, as Jesus said, “unless it falls into the ground and dies, remains a single seed” (John 12:24). If this seed does fall into the ground, it enters a sacred transformative process. Seed, the first or “affirming” force, meets ground, the second or “denying” force (and at that, it has to be moist ground, water being its most critical first component). But even in this encounter, nothing will happen until sunlight, the third or “reconciling” force, enters the equation. Then among the three they generate a sprout, which is the actualization of the possibility in the seed—and a whole new “field” of possibility.
The entire Paschal Mystery plays out as a fairly straightforward configuration of the Law of Three. If you assign affirming as Jesus the human teacher of the path of love; denying as the crucifixion and the forces of hatred driving it; and reconciling as the principle of self-emptying, or kenotic love willingly engaged, then the fourth, new arising revealed through this weaving, is the Kingdom of Heaven, visibly manifest in the very midst of human cruelty and brokenness.
Cynthia Borgeault https://cac.org/a-new-arising-2017-03-16/