The Triskele

At the heart of The Tending Table is the ancient Celtic symbol of the triskele—the triple spiral. This image, found carved into stones older than cathedrals, evokes the mystery and movement of the Divine Trinity: Creator, Redeemer, Sustainer. It is not a static emblem but one of flow, rhythm, and return. It turns and turns, like breath, like tide, like seasons, like the quiet turning of a heart toward God.

This spiral also mirrors the contours of our human experience, the recurring journey through life, death, and resurrection. We live, we lose, we are remade. We know seasons of orientation, when life feels whole and the path is clear. Then comes disorientation, the unraveling of what we thought we could hold. And in time, reorientation—not a return to what was, but a new beginning, shaped by grace, deeper and more generous than before.

The Tending Table rests in that swirl. It is a place to hold all three: the clarity, the chaos, and the newness. A space where the divine dance of the Trinity meets the earthy, aching dance of our own lives. It is a place to be held in mystery, to tell the truth of our disorientation without shame, and to be reoriented gently, poetically, and sacramentally into communion with God and with one another.

To sit at this table is to recognize that we are always being invited into the swirl—a deeper way of seeing, a braver way of belonging, and a truer way of being loved.