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Hey there, Sprouts. Today is Tuesday, October 8th, 2019. This week we are talking about the Trinity,

and we are going to specifically be talking about the third person of the Trinity, the Holy Spirit.

Yesterday we talked about how God is a community

onto himself. He is a family. He is father, son, and spouse. Today, we are going to talk about how

God is a community of love. Now, I know that sounds confusing, and do you know why it sounds confusing?

Because it is confusing. So let's tell a little story here quickly. There was once a great

saint named St. Augustine of Hippo. St. Augustine of Hippo wrote many important works that we still

used to understand our faith today. He was determined to understand the faith and teach it to others.

And one of the mysteries of the faith that he spent a lot of time thinking and praying and

studying about was the nature of God,

the Trinity. Now, he was pondering this, and legend has it that he was at the beach one day.

And he was observing this small child. The small child had dug a hole in the sand and was carrying

one bucket at a time to try to fill up this hole.

St. Augustine asked him what he was doing, and the small child said that he was trying to put the ocean into this hole in the sand.

Now, that sounds pretty ridiculous, doesn't it?

How could you ever cart the entire ocean one bucket at a time into a small hole in the sand?

It's impossible. It's completely impossible. It is almost ridiculous to even try to do that.

So St. Augustine told the child that this was a silly thing to do and that it was impossible.

And legend has it that the child who maybe was an angel or some sort of an apparition

turned to him and said, then why are you trying to understand the Trinity with your tiny little mind?

Or he said something like that.

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