The Trinity and Man's Need

Extract

The first and last of man's needs is his need of another person. Man and woman, child and mother, the simple fact of friendship—we are made that way; we are made for other persons. We are made for a life that is meant to be shared. It is not good for man to be alone.

And the pain of loneliness is more than an ache in your hand: something that hurts, but it will pass, it is not all of you. Loneliness is a hurt in the centre of your self: you are alone, and you long for another to share your need.

Man is made for another: but in the end that other is Cod. All love asks to be shared (that is what love means: a sharing, a giving-and- taking). And a selfish love is no love at all. So it is that God (who is love) supremely asks to be shared.