Missing A Piece of The Puzzle

As a little girl growing up in Florida, it was our Southern custom because of our faith, to go to our community Baptist church on Sunday. The church was the focus of our social life as well. Everybody knew everybody at church for they were either family or lifelong friends.

Years later, meeting my husband-to-be, Charlie, in Gainesville at the University of Florida, we attended many different denominational churches. My husband had a Catholic faith background and over the years our spiritual growth transcended denomination. Traveling the world in a military life for years and years we took our family to the local Chapel on base wherever we lived.

The mystery of “The Trinity” always eluded me.
How could God be three people: God, Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit?
Then one day I went to a week long Woman’s Conference in Garmish, Germany and it was finally explained to my satisfaction.
A beautiful woman named, Kay Arthur, broke down her teachings into a day each for the three Persons of the Godhead. She explained, using Bible reference, who God, the Father was in character, person and Creator. Then she taught the next day, all of the attributes of Jesus Christ. The third day, she carefully and clearly identified the Person of the Holy Spirit...
......and then she made a casual remark that gave me the piece of the puzzle which years of church going had never clarified.
She said, “The Trinity is as this: I am a daughter to my parents, I am a wife to my husband, and I am a Mother to my children......but I am still....only ONE person!”
My heart exclaimed....”That’s it! That’s It! I can understand that....”
God is ALL three persons....in ONE!

Later another casual remark by a small child in our family made me realize how dense my adult thinking had been.
A little five year old boy was asked to say the family grace at a dinner I attended...He bowed his head and said, “Jesus is God. Amen”
The puzzle is complete.
God IS God....Jesus is God....The Holy Spirit is God.
That settles it....for me.....