Understanding

Still thinking on the Trinity. One of the best explanations I’ve heard in 78 years, in yesterday’s sermon. Though I won’t recall or tell it well, perhaps the point will be taken. An English boy on assignment in France meets a German girl on the same assignment. Hitting it off, they do their best to communicate in their stumbling French. When it’s over, the boy returns home to England and the girl to her home in Germany. He soon receives a letter from her, a love letter, in German, which he cannot read. He goes to the library for reference books and and does his best to work through the letter word by word. Finally he gives up and accepts the letter for what it is, her expression of deep love for him.

Yesterday I commented of the Trinity, “You’re not supposed to understand it. Just sing the love song.” It fits with the story of the boy, and his letter, and the girl. He can’t work it out perfectly, but he understands that he is deeply loved, and that’s all that matters.

We don’t have to understand the Trinity. Just sing the song, the love song. We shall sing it as our Praise Song at 10:30 family worship service each Sunday through the summer. 

Holy, holy, holy!  Lord God Almighty!

Early in the morning our song shall rise to thee.

Holy, holy, holy!  Merciful and mighty,

God in three persons, blessed Trinity!