April 30, 2013
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God has been good.
I enjoy going to mass every sunday morning. The three of us go … Johnson @cucumber_melonhead , my son and I …
Don’t get me wrong there are times where I’m still confused as the one God and there is Jesus (Son of God) and he is the savior and our God but he’s not because he’s sitting at the right hand of the father. I guess the trinity thing just makes my head hurt over and over. And I read and recite the Nicene Creed every sunday and I hope the it helps and it doesn’t when it comes to the trinity. Sure, I shouldn’t even think about it but I can’t help it.
What will happen when my son is of age and starts wondering, how shall I answer him? he’s only 7, but still.
When we go to mass johnson leaves halfway… well doesn’t just leave. He’s dismissed. He started going to RCIA (Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults) courses at the church where I go to mass, of course in case you didn’t know, I’m Roman Catholic.
He’s going to go into his 2nd year. He found something within the church that has brought him closer to God and of course We feel that God brought us together. He helps me understand so many things and I know there will be challenges. But, they should make us stronger and united as long as we keep communication.
The end and starting plan of course is to be married. And if it were just up to the state, I think somehow we might be married or not I don’t know. But, he wants to get married under the church and have the ritual just like I use to want to as a little girl.
Could I have been blessed anymore? I probably doubt it.
A more special man, there is not. Don’t get me wrong he does make me mad at times (And I hope this isn’t the first he finds out, and I know I’m at fault too, since it’s hard for me to express myself at times. I rather cry it out to myself like it’s a tantrum than say something that probably means nothing) … You know I vowed myself to TRY not be a nagging person or say stupid things like things that I always use to see girls get mad with their guys. it looks so stupid. I have found myself being as stupid as they act and sometimes I find it unreasonable so why show it to someone so I keep it to myself… yup I do…
I found out that guys don’t pay attention to somethings anyways… so it’s not all their fault. It’s our fault for sometimes having false expectations. But, is it so wrong, at times… to want more? Maybe it is… because I’m sure they want more at times but don’t say anything. And they’re not, and so we’re not mind readers either.
I hope I never make anyone feel trapped or burdened.
I always pray for patience and understanding. Goodness, do I need it at times!!!
More importantly I give thanks everyday because without life and the challenges I have, I would be nothing or no one.
Comments (5)
Sounds great
It’s good to compromise in relationships, but only if the other person is doing the same. If one person’s always wrong it’s an abusive relationship.
As for the god stuff I don’t believe things that don’t make sense to me. I don’t know how people can do that. To me it’s like my head is a round hole and someone is trying to shove a square peg into it.
I don’t see the need to buy into a religion, other than to make your relatives happy.
Sister! If you have questions about the Trinity, please feel free to message me. I might be able to help a little bit but in the end it is one of those mysteries we will never be able to fully wrap our minds around.
God bless you; thank you for sharing your faith with us!
@Ancient_Scribe - Thank you very much for reaching out. We’ve tried in the past to help try and make sense of it. No matter how much I try it just doesn’t work. It’s one of those things that no one can explain right no matter how hard they try. I can understand God and the holy spirit… and even with Jesus … but when it comes to saying there is only one God then there is a confusion even when it comes down to the creed. Which I know it’s where the trinity it’s suppose to unite them all but it makes no sense there is a Father and a son sitting at his right side if there’s only one… I’m sure you understand my confusion.
@pinktiger335 - Well this is long overdue!
Yes, I understand your confusion; it is quite literally impossible to fully comprehend or explain the mystery of the Trinity! One theologian tried to describe it in terms of love:
God is capable of loving on not only loving, but loving perfectly (He is God, after all!).
In order to love to the fullest extent of His ability to love, He would need someone like Himself to love. For example I am capable of loving my pet dog very much, but he is not capable of loving me back to the same extent. Likewise, I could not possibly love my dog to the fullest extent of my ability to love; that would only be possible by loving someone like myself; a wife, for example, someone like myself but also someone other than myself.
In order for God to be able to love perfectly He would need not merely someone like Himself but someone that IS Himself, yet OTHER than Himself (confusing, I know!). Hence there is the Son: someone who is perfectly God but is still OTHER. There we have God the Father and God the Son: both are equally God but differ only in their relationship to one another (one is the Father and the other is not the Father).
Yet you and I both know that love is somewhat “incomplete” when it exists only between two people. A married couple is capable of a deep love, but it seems to lack a certain depth and fulfillment until that love extends to a third party: namely, a child. Likewise think about a newly-engaged couple: isn’t it the first instinct in their heart to share that news with EVERYONE they care about? It seems there is something missing when an engaged couple keeps that knowledge to themselves. Friendships and all manner of relationships seem to be lacking when they are entirely exclusive of at least one other person/party. The love, therefore, between the Father and the Son is lacks its full perfection without a third, and yet again that love cannot be perfect unless the third “other” is God as well. Hence, the Holy Spirit!
Another way this has been explained is you have the Lover (the Father), the Beloved (the Son) and the Love itself (the Holy Spirit) which is so perfect that it is its own Person. All are God, yet differ only by their relation to one another.
Now, it can be difficult to think of One God while there are so many images of Jesus “sitting at the right hand”; it makes the Trinity sound more like three Gods rather than one God. Remember that these are, after all, images, ways of speaking in order to convey an idea. Sitting at the right hand of God is the Church’s way of explaining that Jesus has the place of honor in Heaven, the place of power, the place of mercy; in ancient times to sit at the right hand of the king was indeed a big deal. One way to think of 3-in-1 is to think of the Persons of the Trinity like drops of water: three of the same, ok? One at a time drop each into a glass bowl; how many drops are in the bowl? One; the three join into one. The difference with the Trinity would be that the Trinity is not three Persons combining to make a bigger “something” like three drops of water combine into a bigger drop; the Trinity would be like three drops of water combining into one drop that is the same size as a single drop. I know, mind-bending!
Perhaps the easiest way to think of the Trinity and understand Him is to look at the closest image or “reflection” we have on Earth of the Trinity: the family. You have a man–who is human–and a woman–who is human–who give themselves totally to one another out of love. That total self-gift and that total love leads to the existence of a third person–the child–who is just like the other two. Yet though all three in this little family are the same in their humanity (just as the Persons of the Trinity are the same in their divinity) they differ in that one is the father, one is the mother and one is the child; they are different in their relation. Granted there are other differences (gender, age, etc.) in humans but hopefully you can see what I’m getting at.
The Trinity is, after all, a family; the Trinity is love, and please never forget that our One True God–Father, Son and Holy Spirit–loves you with all His Heart.
-Jacob