One in Three and Three in One

The Mystery of the Trinity.

Once there was a stream on a hillside. It flowed on uninterrupted and swept aside the various obstacles it met on its way. Then the stream came to a plain. Beyond the plain was a desert. There the stream had to pause because it sank into the sand and could go no farther. Then it heard a voice say, “Only the wind can carry you over the sands.” The stream did not understand, so the voice explained: “The wind will absorb the water into vapor, and carry it over the desert and then let it fall again as rain. If you are willing, then you can be transformed.” And because the stream accepted its limits, the wind took it and carried it miles away to another hillside. Only now the little muddy stream had become a mighty river.