Instead of God being the Eternal Threatener, we have God as the Ultimate Participant—in everything—both the good and the painful. Let me try to describe the two paradigms in stark contrast. Instead of an Omnipotent Monarch, let’s try what God as Trinity demonstrates as the actual and wondrous shape of the Divine Reality, which then replicates itself in us6 and in “all the array” of creation.7 Instead of God watching life happen from afar and judging it… How about God being inherent in life itself?