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May 24, 2021Andy Dapron reflects: Iconographer Andrei Rublev’s work The Trinity presents a rather striking image of the three Persons of the Godhead engaged in table fellowship. Looking at the image, I am reminded of times I have spent gathered at table with people I love, and I can connect quite readily to the ease with which delight must flow between the three Persons in the icon. In some ways, I think that the Trinitarian life we engage through contemplative practice is mirrored well by a great meal between friends: a time entered into with love, sometimes comforting, sometimes challenging, sometimes surprising. Along the way, things could get messy – there may be spills, and if you’re like me, you’ll end up covered in crumbs and sauce stains. Yet, because of the affinity we share for one another, the time is always valuable, and we never, ever rush. In true table fellowship, we want to linger, as the figures in Rublev’s icon surely do. Perhaps this is the best way to express the freedom available in contemplation: the freedom to linger in the comforting, surprising, challenging, messy, but always-worth-it Presence of God, long after the meal has ended, through the night and on into early dawn…
