Meditation: Reflecting the Trinity

Thomas Merton wrote that God, as Creator, "holds us in being", meaning that he actively wills each one of us and speaks each of us into being at each moment. Any interruption in this act of loving creation would result in our complete and total disappearance from existence not only here and now, but in past and future as well. As Merton put it:

If I am true to the concept that God utters in me, if I am true to the thought of him I was meant to embody, I shall be full of his actuality and find him...