God: Creative Energy

John 1:1 “In the beginning was the Word, the Word was with God and the Word was God.”
 
I wonder if, when reading this, Charles Fillmore, Unity co-founder, came to the understanding that God is Mind, and from this created the Unity version of the trinity: Mind, Idea, Expression
 
I will admit I have never fully engaged with God as Mind. These days, I tend to say God is Divine Mind and Divine Heart, which opens me into the expression of Love, which is how I experience God, in all Love’s many forms.
 
However, I have begun reading theologian Matthew Fox’s book, Original Blessing. Here, he writes that the use of ‘Word’ in John 1:1 is not a full description of what was originally written as, ‘Dabhar’. He writes that a more full and rich translation is: Creative Energy. This for me, is dynamic, has life, flow, power, movement. It works.
 
Thus John 1:1 becomes,
In the beginning was the Creative Energy
The Creative Energy was with God
And the Creative Energy was God.
 
For me, the Trinity becomes, Creative Energy, Expression, Expansion
 
We are here to live, in our own unique ways, the creative energy that is God expressing through us, to expand us into greater versions of ourselves and to share this radiant, powerful, expression in our world. Why else would I be here, or you?
 
I invite you to check into your heart and mind, to reveal how you understand the energy that is God. How do you experience God? I would love to read how God expresses through you and as you.
 
Rev Kimerie Mapletoft
Director of Silent Unity and Daily Word UK