Ever asked yourself why people come together and form a club? Could be a social club, spiritual club, political club, name it or intellectual club, where members come together to study a particular author, book or discuss a discipline. The immediate answer could be that we are social and rational beings. Not forgetting that instinct also plays a major role.
People join different clubs with different motives so as to achieve some goal in life. The motivation of joining is the fundamental source of psyche that pushes the individual to the end despite the hardships encountered along the way. Definitely no club would sail smoothly no matter how united and witty its members are. Look at our political milieu. The goal is to run for power but the principles to achieve this come with parallelism; hence the personalities forming these groups come with the vicissitudes they face in life and seek consensus.
God too has a club. A club of Trinity that is God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit. This is a perfect relational union. This will of God at times to us is maddeningly mysterious. Hard and tiresome to grasp! But of course many great theologians and philosophers for that matter have made attempts to unveil this mystery. We are also called to join this club, the triune club, through witnessing to this unseen reality; hence in so doing come to make the unseen seen, and the invisible visible.
The clubhouse of this organization begins with me, you and the other, and its psyche has to be occasionally revamped by the Word and Sacraments to enable the individual achieve the perfect relation not only with the Trinity but also with the other members of the club. This perfect relation will come to its culmination in the type of life we live, the vocation to life.
Benefit from such clubs because they are the grounds for grooming the vocation to life. Think of those clubs you joined while still in high school or the ones you are a member. Those opportunities were and are not just for the sake of it. How fulfilling they were or are. They are a moment to face the reality of life as it presents itself to you. Therefore, there is no manual book for guidance apart from relationships. They were or are a moment to taste life.
What about the parochial clubs or groups especially of the youth setting. They give the youths the opportunity to convene together and unveil the mystery of the union of the Trinity. They share the joys and despondencies of life by journeying together towards the realization of the individual’s vocation, a vocation to marriage life, religious life or single life. Just like Moses in the wilderness experienced the call from God through the burning bush, these clubs also form the opportunity for God to talk to the youths within the various activities they perform in the Church. Say yes to the vocational clubs and if you are a youth seek membership of one around you. Hey show me your club and I tell you who you are, for we are that which we love and not that which loves us.
