I doubt that anyone would argue that we humans are composed of three distinct yet inseparable "pieces": mind, body, and spirit. Most of the time, it is difficult to distinguish which of the three has "control" over us. Does the body, at times, act of its own accord, or does the mind consciously control everything we do? Is it our spirit that distinguishes us from the animals, or the complex workings of our minds? When are we truly dead...when the body stops functioning, when we are declared "brain dead", or when our spirit leaves our body? These are difficult, possibly unanswerable questions, and yet the interactions of our mind, body, and spirit are, in fact, at the very heart of who we are.
It occurs to me that this very interaction is how we are made in the image and likeness of God. We do not understand the interactions of God the Father (mind), the Son (body), and the Holy Spirit (spirit). At times it is difficult for us to distinguish between the persons of the Trinity. It is difficult, and ultimately impossible, for us to understand three persons in one God. And yet, in our humanity, we need only admit that we, in mind, body, and spirit, are made in the image and likeness of God to experience a small taste of the Trinity everyday.
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