Three? Four? Does It Matter?
L ast Saturday was Saint Patrick’s Day. I saw an article in which a preacher expressed displeasure about the way things are going. I’ll admit that I think it’s ironic that some people celebrate the life of a man who may have been a Baptist preacher by drinking green beer, but his concern was something else. His concern was with the shamrock. He had noticed that the four leaf clover is replacing the three leaf shamrock as the symbol of Saint Patrick’s day. He wrote of how is mother had taught him that the three leaves represent the trinity, but people are beginning to think more about the luck of a the rare four leaf clover instead. He does have a point about people turning to luck instead of to God. I’m just not sure people are really thinking about luck as much as they’ve heard the term “four leaf clover” so much that they assume that’s what we should be using on Saint Patrick’s day. But I question whether we should be concerned because the three leaves represent the trinity. Grant...