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So at the risk of drowning in murky theological waters, let me tell you what the Trinity means to me.<\/p>\n<p><strong>1)  God is love.<\/strong><br \/>\nWe know love when we experience it, when it shows itself. Love is not just a lot of talk, not a lot of hot air. Love is an action. So what does God\u2019s love look like? God sent His Son to show us.<\/p>\n<p>Jesus heals the sick, Jesus feeds the hungry, Jesus pays attention to the outcasts, Jesus loves the poor. He is not cowed by the powerful. He chooses lowly fishermen to be his friends and followers and empowers them to do what they never knew they could do.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shopguideposts.org\/mornings-with-jesus-2016.html?utm_source=shopgp_homepage_container2&amp;utm_medium=direct%20&amp;utm_campaign=mwj2016\"><em><strong>Read More: Mornings with Jesus Devotional<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Not long ago our 29-year-old son told us something a colleague at his office said: \u201cYou must have great parents.\u201d Wow we were so touched. His colleague had never met us but she thought she had a glimpse of who we were in our son. Similarly, when we see Jesus we see His dad.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2)  God is everywhere.<\/strong><br \/>\nIn two millennium of Christian art, you get plenty of images of Jesus and some of God the Father (think of the old bearded guy on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel). But artists have struggled to show the Holy Spirit.<\/p>\n<p>They might take a cue from Scripture and illustrate a descending dove because when Jesus was baptized the Holy Spirit came on Him \u201clike a dove.\u201d Or they might show flames of fire because when the disciples received the gift of the Spirit, \u201ctongues as of fire\u201d appeared over them.<\/p>\n<p>But notice these are all similes, expressions with \u201clike\u201d or \u201cas\u201d to show what is indescribable. You can\u2019t pin God down. God is everywhere and the Spirit is everywhere. Like the wind\u2013to resort to another simile\u2013it can\u2019t be seen, but its work is always evident.<\/p>\n<p><strong>3)  God is always present.<\/strong><br \/>\nIt\u2019s easy enough to think God is around at our happy moments, our celebrations, but the concept of the Trinity shows us that God is also present when we suffer the most.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve heard people object to the Crucifixion by saying, \u201cWhat kind of Father would put His Son through such torture?\u201d It seems to me they\u2019re missing the point. God was on the cross with His Son. God suffered with Him. God is there with us in our miseries.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gpbookstore.org\/articles\/prayer\/bible-resources\/deepen-your-faith\/what-jesus-left-behind-to-come-here\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>Read More: What Jesus Left Behind to Come Here<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>At the end of Matthew\u2019s gospel, Jesus gives his disciples their marching orders, saying, \u201cGo and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit&#8230;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>There it is, God in all three persons. God beside us, before us, around us, with us, in heaven and on earth and anyplace we happen to go.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m no theologian and hardly the person to parse the ins and outs of the doctrine of the Trinity, but truth to tell, I\u2019ve never found it so hard to believe. God in three persons, Father, Son and Holy Spirit? Well, why not? Sunday, May 22, is Trinity Sunday. 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