How to talk about the Trinity without mentioning clovers, eggs, or water

As Christians we believe that the God who reveals himself in Jesus Christ is by nature triune. God the Father is divine, God the Son is divine, and God the Spirit is divine. Yet there are not three gods, but only one God.
When good Christians, who believed in Scripture’s authority and the Spirit’s workings through the church, pondered Jesus’ relationship to God the Father, they came up with different explanations. Upon further reflection, the church rejected most explanations for good reasons (even though many of the rejected explanations are still around today in some form whenever we talk about clovers, eggs, or water while discussing the Trinity).What the church eventually agreed on regarding the Trinity is not a neat and tidy definition of who God is, for that would be impossible for us to describe—even with the aid of revelation. Rather, the church set boundaries for what Scripture reveals God to be, and it marked those boundaries in clear places that let everyone know whose views were within the fence and whose views remained outside.
Now the struggle in many churches is no longer to explain why some views of God are wrong and should be rejected. In some ways our task today is even greater—explaining the orthodox doctrine of the Trinity well. One helpful approach begins with a familiar phrase about God—that he is love.
1. God is love.
2. Love is shared.
3. If God IS love, rather than merely someone who can and does love others, then God gives and receives love without any others.
4. God the Father, the fount and source of divinity, begets God the Son and loves him.5. The love shared between God the Father and God the Son is so fierce a bond that the bond itself is also its own giver and receiver of love, the Holy Spirit that proceeds from the Father through the Son.
6. Although we can distinguish between the causes of God the Son and God the Spirit, we are not describing what God does, but who God is. Thus, God the Son and God the Spirit exist eternally and are no less divine than God the Father.
7. Although God the Father is not God the Son and neither of them is God the Spirit, God’s actions toward creatures are so perfectly harmonious that from our perspective they look singly, originating from the Father, through the Son, and completed in the Spirit.
Of course, you do not have to believe the Christian doctrine of the Trinity to believe that God is love. But once you go further than mere theism and believe in the God who reveals himself in Jesus Christ, you need to explain how Jesus reveals God. After much deliberation, the church settled on the mysterious doctrine of the Trinity as the most proper explanation. What a wonderful doctrine it is, telling us that by his very nature God is love. God shares. God gives. God receives. God overflows. What a glorious God we serve!