Perichoresis

Good quote towards the end of Tim Keller's new book:

"The inner life of the triune God, however, is utterly different. The life of the Trinity is characterized not be self-centeredness but by mutually self-giving love. When we delight and serve someone else, we enter into a dynamic orbit around him or her, we center on the interests and desires of the other. That creates a dance, particularly if there are three persons, each of whom moves around the other two. So it is, the Bible tells us. Each of the divine persons centers upon the others. None demands that the others revolve around him. Each voluntarily circles the other two, pouring love, delight, and adoration into them. Each person of the Trinity loves, adores, defers to, and rejoices in the others. That creates a dynamic, pulsating dance of joy and love. The early leaders of the Greek church had a word for this - perichoresis." p. 214-5

Within this context we see how creation and man fit into the the bigger picture of God's redemptive plan. This is what we were created for. But in the fall, we lost the dance. But through the sacrifice and self-giving love of Christ we can return to the dance and join into God's "dynamic, pulsating dance of joy and love" in ancticipation of the day when all of creation will be restored. May it be so.