Kay

“2. Now, just because the distinctions between the Father, Son and Spirit cannot be identified with or reduced to differing modes of action does not mean that God cannot serve in different roles in creation or redemption, or that certain tasks or operations may not be primarily associated with one or the other of the Divine Persons. However, the Early Church recognized that these distinctions in external action were not to be read back into the persons of the Trinity.”

Frank,
I think this point is pivitol. We can see in Scripture examples of God acting in a variety of ways. For instance as a mother would:
“When Israel was a child, I loved him, and out of Egypt I called my son. But the more I called Israel, the further they went from me.
They sacrificed to the Baals and they burned incense to images.
It was I who taught Ephraim to walk, taking them by the arms;
but they did not realize it was I who healed them.
I led them with cords of human kindness, with ties of love;
I lifted the yoke from their neck and bent down to feed them.”
Hosea 11:1-4
“I have kept still and restrained Myself. Now like a woman in labor I will groan, I will both gasp and pant.” Isa. 42:14