THURSDAY, March 11

It always comes back to this for me. Jesus loved God. He prayed to God. Jesus didn't pray to himself and he didn't worship himself. This is a great mystery that we may never understand; how can Jesus also be God. I can only pray for understanding. I also pray for protection from those who are so sure that they understand more than I do.

I agree with what Steve said above. I don't understand the Trinity either, Father, Son
and Holy Spirit, three that equals One. I pray to the Father, Son and Holy Spirit as
three separates, yet, one being of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. I don't fully
understand the beautiful service of the Blessed Sacrament either, however, I receive
great strength and courage and a prayerful spirit every time I attend this service.

Research about Arianism and find out about the development of the Trinity. I have been advised to not let it be a stumbling block, because many don't really understand it. I have been silent about this but heartened to read that others have concerns too

This analogy helped me to understand:

Imagine God as a Spider Plant, growing on a plain of the Holy Spirit.. God is the Plant itself, it's sap, which is drawn from the ground, is the Spirit of God.

And then one day the Spider Plant grows a 'shoot'.. one of the branches touches the 'plain' and another Spider Plant forms.. has it's own roots, draws it's own sap, but still is attached to the main plant via the one branch, and the sap they both share.

And so you have the main plant (God), it's offspring (Christ), and the sap that feeds them both (The Holy Spirit)

I don't understand how the Trinity "works" either, but that it most be true for God to be the God s/he is was made clear to me in that profound theological tome--The Shack.