God and flowers

There is a kind of effusiveness about God, an overflowing quality.
Augustine spoke of this in a passage in his great The City of God. Augustine spoke of the “plentitude” of God. Augustine mentioned the effusiveness whereby God created all of the flowers in the world. We might have stopped creating flowers after one or two beautiful specimens. But God didn’t stop, God kept creating multitudes of flowers, all in different shapes and colors and kinds. Not only are they beautiful, but the glory of how they will turn their heads toward the sun, bending towards the light. We might have been content, as humans, with just a few flowers and their beauty. God didn’t stop with a few, because God is effusive, overflowing with love and creativity. There is a plentitude there.

We don’t have one Gospel, we have four. Four Gospels! One might have thought that we could have stopped with one, saying to ourselves, “Matthew fairly well got it right, let’s all go with Matthew.” But no, an effusive, ubiquitous, plenitudinous, and overflowing God requires at least four Gospels to talk about God and Christ.

One of the church fathers said that, “When we talk about the Trinity, we must forget how to count.” He was simply recognizing that, at first glance, the Trinity is a mathematical impossibility. After all, how can one equal three?

Boy, does this make you think….an overflowing GOD, that NEVER STOPS giving…loving…etc