Today we celebrated The Mystery of the Trinity. The Trinity is a uniquely Christian idea of God. There is a lot of theology and philosophy about the Trinity, but actually the concept originates in the Christian experience of God. We experience God as Father, we experience God by knowing Jesus the Son, the we experience the Holy Spirit at work in our lives. While we experience God as these three different persons, we also know that there is only one God. The word Trinity comes from Tri- meaning three and [u]nity naming one.

As a Christian the concept of Trinity is an important part of my idea and experience of God but I recognise that everyone’s experience of God, or something outside ourselves is different. For some people’s experience of, or the idea of God, is bad and they might reject the idea of God completely while other’s reject the idea of God on philosophical grounds. For Hindus God is experienced in many forms, though they still believe that there is only one God or ultimate reality. For Jews and Muslims, the oneness of God is the most important.

Whatever we believe about God, respecting other people’s beliefs is important.