Trinity is a rich and complicated concept for most. But not for our little friends.
Before we even started one astute little guy suggested that Trinity was the sign of the cross - what a great intro. During
our dialogue Homily we talked about people having more than one
identity - two of our friends stood up and demonstrated that they are
'friends', 'hockey players' and 'students'. So Trinity is the name for God's three identities. How easy is that?
When
asked to describe Trinity, our friends came up with many great
responses but then the Spirit led one new friends, a really young new
friend (3 or 4 years old), to take her three bracelets and place them on
the floor in a traditional Trinity setting - gotta love how Spirit
works!
Then came the fun part - I had made play dough for that morning and asked our friends to sculpt a likeness of the Holy Trinity.
Trinity is really not that complicated. It can take the shape of three abstract human-esque forms, or three joined hearts,
or a triangle with figures on each point, or three joined circles,
three crosses, or 'un coccinelle' ( a ladybug - with three spots) - and
my favorite - three jelly beans (a remnant of Easter teaching).
Happy Play Time!
and God bless the person who came up with the idea of play dough.
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