The solution!

This will be my last post on the riddle of 3’s in my life. Not because I’m tired of the subject. But you may be.

I have three close male family members who died in motor vehicle crashes. My Uncles Percy Shaw and Johnny Wilkinson. And my brother-in-law Sonny McKenney.

I have three daughters.

I have three family members who are pastors. Uncle Paul Lynn, and cousins Clyde Shaw and Terry Turner.

At a point in time, that’s how I perceive the numeric symbolism of the power and presence of an Almighty God in my life.

I wish I still had the math skills to build a matrix of all these three’s and use ‘simplex linear programming’ technique to solve for the identity matrix, or optimum solution. My objective constraints would be; (a) = Optimum love; (b) = Optimum forgiveness; (c) = Optimum acceptance.

But I realize a very powerful computer would be needed because where my life matrix ends another’s begins…and where there are gaps in the pattern in my matrix…someone else’s picks up…and on and on throughout human recorded history all the way back to Adam and Eve.

I don’t have to do the math. I know the Optimum Solution. I know the identity matrix solution. I know the architect of my life and the author of my destiny i-s-s-s-s…(drumroll please)…God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit.

I accept this with the ‘simple faith of a child’. A child who once accepted it that way, then got educated and began questioning, then laid all those burdens down and came back to Christ with the ‘simple’ faith of a lifelong pursuit of understanding. All the collected human intelligence down through the ages, everyone from Einstein to Hawking, and all in between and before and since, cannot even begin to comprehend the Majesty of God. “For a fool in his heart hath said, there is no God.” Well… my mama didn’t raise no fools, and she suffers none either.