A Thought on Trinity Sunday

The Trinity is a mystery, just as it should be. God himself is beyond the perception of man, only through his own revelation can we know about him, only through relationship can we know him. Therefore analogising the Trinity seems to have fallen out of favour since the time of St Patrick, any analogy will fall short. But if we know that to begin with, can we not use an analogy as a starting place to meditate on the truth that God reveals of himself?

I'm sure this analogy has been hashed and rehashed and taken apart many times before, but the one that caught my attention this Trinity Sunday was the idea of light as shown through a prism. The light is one, both before passing through and after, but the prism reveals distinct colours in the light. For me then, the prism represented God's revelation of himself. He reveals himself in three distinct persons while always remaining One. The light loses nothing by being viewed through the prism, each of the colours remains what it always was, radience, but each shows to the onlooker something about the light. God is whole in each of the persons of the Trinity, not a part of a whole, but a whole, but showing himself in three guises, each adds in abundance to the glory of the Unity.

My mother loves to hang crystals at the East facing window at home - call her Pollyanna - in the morning the room is filled with rainbow colours. When the children are visiting she will climb up and spin the crystals, the room becomes a sunrise disco of dancing light and colour. God is so much more than any analogy could ever tell of him, but in a room of light and colour like that it is hard to miss the wonder of radience that he has built into our world. 

Christ is the light of the world, and light brings colour. Am I allowed to meditate on God through this analogy of light and colour?