Place a candle, clear bowl of water, and living plant in the midst of your group. Pray together the following images of the Trinity, which Elizabeth Johnson adapts from Tertullian’s Adversus Praxaes in her book She Who Is.
LEADER 1: Let us imagine God as light. God, the source of all, is the sun. Jesus, who is God incarnate, is the same light streaming to earth, a sunbeam. Spirit is the point of light that arrives on earth as warmth and energy.
ALL: All one shining light.
LEADER 2: Let us imagine God as water. God, the source of all, is an upwelling spring. Jesus, God incarnate, is the river that flows outward from this source. The Spirit is the irrigation channel where the water meets and moistens the earth.
ALL: All one flowing water.
LEADER 3: Let us imagine God as a flowering plant with a deep invisible root, a green stem reaching into the world from that root, and a flower that spreads beauty, fragrance, and eventually seeds.
ALL: All one living plant.