According to my dad, the answer to everything was duct tape! If a pipe leaked, if something came unglued or broke, we would hear, “Get me the duct tape!”  Our household did not have a small role of the stuff.  We had the extraordinary humongous size designed to last a family at least a century. Around our house, that meant it lasted about a month.  No matter what happened, the answer always was, to my father, duct tape.

Sometimes, I feel that we Christians have the tendency to approach God like my father used duct tape.  We get comfortable with one way of connecting with God. We get comfortable with one way of praying, of reading Holy Scripture.  We comfortable with only one way of looking as to how God works in our world.  It is like when something is amiss, skewed, even broken in our journeys, we cry to God and ask God to come in a manner which we are the most familiar with.  “Get the duct tape.”

God, the Father, gives us creation.  God told us that what is created is not only good.  Creation is very good.  The amazing thing about this gift is that it is always changing—evolving into God’s likeness.  Creation is not stagnant.  Creation is ever-changing.  And we changed by God the Father.

God, the Son, enters into our very souls and challenges us in areas which we need to be challenged.  If we really think we have all of God in life figured out, the Son comes and calls us to see God in a different light.  But the message God the Son tries to always get across is that everything is centered in unconditional love.  We are challenged by God the Son.

God, the Holy Spirit, connects us with the mystery of life, of creation, of God.  We witness how the impossible becomes reality.  We witness how what seems to be routine becomes glorious and huge.  We witness the same routine also become intimate and small.  We are empowered, led, and validated by the presence of the Holy Spirit.  We are given the spark of mystery by the Holy Spirit.

Change.  Challenge,  Spark.  This Sunday is Trinity Sunday.  It is a time we try to comprehend the nature of God.  But, in truth, God cannot be totally comprehended; at least not yet.  It is in God we are changed, challenged and given the means by which we begin the pilgrimage of being transformed into the image of God.  God is many things in our hearts, souls and in the world itself.  May we continue to find the means God molds and shapes us during the season of Pentecost.

Yours in Christ,

Father Scotty+