The Holy Trinity

Trinity Sunday.  The word, Trinity, sometimes can be foreboding and complicated, but it simply is a shorter word for Father, Son and Holy Spirit.  We use that combination each time we make the sign of the cross or pray the "Glory Be"; it is part of the baptismal formula and the subject of many of our favorite hymns.  The complication comes in tying to explain how three distinct persons can be ONE God.  It's beyond our human comprehension, but what we can try to do is to understand how God the Father is part of our lives, keeping us in his thoughts and thus keeping us alive.  If we slipped out of his mind for even a second, we'd be annihilated.  Jesus, Son of the Father, our Savior and our brother through baptism when we are made sons of God, lives in us and makes us holy through the Holy Spirit, his Spirit whose presence also came us in baptism.  Thus, our lives are totally immersed in the Holy Trinity despite the little attention we pay to the Three in One.  In contemplating, simply sitting in the Presence of the Holy Trinity, and in our acts of patience, gentleness, charity, joy and peace we can make God more present to ourselves and to others. That's what the Sabbath is for.  We can see God and ourselves in a new light, and sing with Louis Armstrong, "What a Wonderful World" with new meaning.
Bro. Rene