Sometimes you have to ask the big questions like, “What is the meaning of life?”  Of course, when you ask those questions then people just scoff at you because they think that the big questions are beyond our capacity to address and that there really are no suitable answers to those questions.  I think the answer to life’s meaning has already been revealed to us and is just waiting for each one of us to discover it.  Ask and it will be given to you.  God is life and the meaning of life can be discovered in the Holy Trinity.  God does not leave us alone to grope in the dark and wander down paths of emptiness and futility.  God accompanies us on our life’s journey and gives us guidance, direction and encouragement in our search for meaning in life.  God is with us, for us and in us.  As we grow in awareness, life unfolds for us and reveals itself to us through the revelation of the Holy Trinity.  The Holy Trinity addresses for us the big questions of who, what and how.

“Who am I?”  God, the Father, helps us to discover our true identity, nature and dignity.  God, who is pure Being, is the source of our being.  God reveals his name to Moses:  “God replied, ‘I am who am.’” (Ex 3,14)  Paul instructs us, “Rather it is he who gives to everyone life and breath and everything.  He made from one the whole human race to dwell on the entire surface of the earth, and he fixed the ordered seasons and the boundaries of their regions, so that people might seek God, even perhaps grope for him and find him, though indeed he is not far from any one of us.  For ‘In him we live and move and have our being.’” (Acts 17,25-28)  God is ready to empower us with being as we become the children of God.  “But to those who did accept him he gave power to become children of God, to those who believe in his name, who were born not by natural generation nor by human choice nor by a man’s decision but of God.” (Jn 1,12f)  “See what love the Father has bestowed on us that we may be called the children of God.  Yet so we are.” (1Jn 3,1)  “For creation awaits with eager expectation the revelation of the children of God.” (Rom 8,19)  I am a child of God, created in the divine image and likeness, loved and empowered to be an heir and to share in eternal life with God.

“What am I to do?”  Jesus, the Son, is the Word through whom all things were created.  He is wisdom and light who reveals to us the Way, the Truth and the Life (Jn 14,6) and teaches us how to live.  Jesus helps us to grow and to develop so that we might see God, believe in him and enter into the fullness of life and share in his glory.  When we stray and become lost, Jesus reforms us and restores us to the path of life in his mercy and forgiveness.  “And the Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us, and we saw his glory, the glory as of the Father’s only Son, full of grace and truth.” (Jn 1,14)  Jesus gives us simple instructions in life.  “Follow me.” (Jn 1,43)  “Remain in me, as I remain in you…go and bear fruit that will remain, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name he may give you.  This I command you: love one another.” (Jn 15,4.16f)  “You call me ‘teacher’ and ‘master,’ and rightly so, for indeed I am.  If I therefore, the master and teacher, have washed your feet, you ought to wash one another’s feet.  I have given you a model to follow, so that as I have done for you, you should also do.” (Jn 13,13ff)  I am to do what Jesus has taught me and shown me to do.

“How can I accomplish, complete and fulfill my purpose in life?”  The Holy Spirit dwells within us and gives us gifts, grace, discernment and truth to empower us to be perfected in love and to find joy in a full life.  “But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, throughout Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.” (Acts 1,8)  “To each individual the manifestation of the Spirit is given for some benefit…” (1Cor 12,7)  “In the same way, the Spirit too comes to the aid of our weakness;” (Rom 8,26)  The Spirit breathes into us true freedom and peace in which we can find our rest in the love and oneness of God.

The Holy Trinity is the one source of truth, beauty and goodness.  In the mystery of the Holy Trinity we can find all our hearts’ desire in life.  Our lives are “hidden with Christ in God.” (Col 3,3) It delights the Father to reveal to us what is hidden in his Presence so that we might “rejoice in the Lord always.” (Phil 4,4)  The world may scoff but we know where the secret to the truth of life’s meaning is hidden.  All we need to do is ask in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.