Today is Trinity Sunday and also Fathers' day - which seems a bit of a contradiction. God is three and one in some way that no-one understands, so people have tried to do analogies or metaphors like the three-faced man which I saw in the bookshop at Cartmel (photo above, hopefully). The book I'm reading at the moment suggests a parallel is Cerberus the mythological 3-headed dog. As featured in a game I once made, and Harry Potter too.
When I was at theological college, we students decided Trinity Sunday was a good day to give someone else a chance to preach.
I tend to the modalist rather than the tritheist end of the spectrum of Trinitarian heresy. So with a Trinity - Fathers' day combo today, I decided it was best to avoid church.
Instead I went to church. Without Walls. A few friends of mine turn up on a field where there's a weekly car boot sale, bringing a gazebo, some seats, Christian literature, and plenty of tea, sympathy and time for anyone passing by who cares to call in. Interesting characters abound. Sometimes it's 6 hours waiting around for a 6 minute conversation. But it's worth it. Especially for that person who has no one else to talk to.
Galatians 4:6-7 "Because you are his sons, God sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, the Spirit who calls out, 'Abba, Father.' So you are no longer a slave, but God’s child; and since you are his child, God has made you also an heir."
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