shamrocks.....

ok this story is my all time favorite story of my rainbow boys that i teach on wednesday nights. we are consistently asked to 'poll' the boys for a statistic that is printed in some kind of AG literature. last night the question was to ask them 'what is God like?' most of them didn't have an answer but i few of them were funnie-remember they are 4 or just turned 5:

God is like magic, like powerful.
God is like and angel, he flies everywhere.

But then there was Nico he is 4 and this answer blew me out of the water.

sandrock...ok so im not understanding what he said....can you describe it Nico? yeah teacher rachel its green and it comes out of the ground and it has 3 leaves.....still not getting it. then tristan says, teacher rachel-the thing at st. patricks day sandrock!


oh a Shamrock......i get it now. i then asked Nico why is God like a shamrock...he looked at me and without missing a beat he says : teacher God is like a shamrock because hes 3 in 1; God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Ghost!

i about passed out. on the floor. out cold.not breathing

i have been taught about the trinity all my life but i had never heard this illustration in my entire life. it was so real to nico and he got it. he's 4 and he understands more about the trinity than most adults do. that is what ministry is about.
i used to always use the egg as an illustration for the Holy Ghost but the shamrock is so much more simple for a child to understand. because all the leaves are equal just like God but all together they make up the One True God.

hmmmm....maybe we should be listening to the kids of the church they seem to know what's going on.......