Trinity anyone?

     There are mysteries to our faith in God and of the world that we are not yet capable of understanding. Some things we will come to know as humans in time, others I believe we will know on dying. I call it "the great ah ha!"moment.  But there are things we could not comprehend as humans and so a simplified version is told to us. Like the story of creation. Ancient civilizations would not have the faintest clue about God particles, muons, mesons, protons and the like.  So creation stories of all civilizations made do until we could understand more. God is still the driving force and there is still much more yet to understand. The point is, we don't get the adult version until some time later when we might possibly understand.

      Let's take the mystery of the Trinity. We have only ideas and human representations of what it truly means. One of the explanations I was taught which I find  reasonable is that the love of the father and the son ( the Word ) was so intense, so real, so alive that the expression of that love became a person in the form of the Holy Spirit.  I don't think that explanation is a matter of faith or no faith but it helps explain a mystery we cannot fully grasp or simply do not know.

      By the way, as a parent, this explanation seems is consistent with what happens to us as humans   ( made in the image and likeness of God ).  From the intense love of two people, a new life springs forth. It makes sense. To me.

      The notion of a expression or love or "the word" taking shape as a life we are familiar with makes sense to me. Jesus is "the Word" come to human life. So powerful is the expression of the word, he grasped human life willingly to show us, teach us, offer us eternal salvation and our destiny as human beings. Too much? Too deep?

       Loving fully and completely is something that is so very natural to us as humans. Is it such a far stretch to believe that an expression of love takes the form in reality as a form we are familiar with it? Just some thoughts

John 1:9-14

The true light, which enlightens everyone, was coming into the world.

He was in the world, and the world came into being through him; yet the world did not know him. He came to what was his own, and his own people did not accept him. But to all who received him, who believed in his name, he gave power to become children of God, who were born, not of blood or of the will of the flesh or of the will of man, but of God.

And the Word became flesh and lived among us, and we have seen his glory, the glory as of a father’s only son, full of grace and truth.