Our human minds cannot comprehend many things.
Science keeps getting better and better. Our ability to see deep in to space or magnify the smallest particle. Doesn’t it seem that the more that is discovered the greater the mystery.
As we peer out with telescopes in space, we are looking back in time trying to find what? When and how it all began. When we’re looking inside the atom for electrons and quarks, what are we trying to find? When and how it all began.
The great mystery of life.
But there is one mystery that may be the greatest of all. The Holy Trinity.
The Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Three distinct persons and yet one essence, God. Not three Gods….. No….Just one God. No matter how hard I think about it, it is difficult to comprehend. How can they be different , yet one?
I like the analogy of the sun. It is but one sun. But that sun gives us light to see or there would be darkness. The sun gives us warmth or we would have a frozen planet. The sun gives us energy for the plants we eat and the fuel we use. Three distinct elements, light, warmth, energy but always just one sun.
Or how about what my friends child once explained to him. The child said “ the Holy Trinity is like a cake. You put in eggs, flour and milk and when it come out of the oven its just one cake” I always thought that that was brilliant.
You see, the important thing to remember is that you cannot take one person away. You can’t take the Holy Spirit out because He is always with us, dwelling inside us. You can’t take Jesus out, otherwise there would be no salvation, no heaven. And of course we could not leave out the Father, the creator of all things, of everything that is or will ever be.
That’s why it is one the most beautiful and simple and potentially powerful prayers we have. Every time we bless ourselves we are saying a prayer to the Holy Trinity.
The greatest of the all the mysteries.
In the name of the Father and the Son and Holy Spirit. Amen.
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