It was amazing! Fire and wind brought a word that came from beyond the fear, beyond the gaps that separated those ancient people. Many of them could listen to one another for the first time.
Today is Pentecost. Feel the wind in your hair as you sit with your daughter or son, your mother or father, maybe for the first time in a long while. Is it possible, in really listening to one another, that the love that is deeper than the gap could show itself again? Feel the wind in your hair as you move and live in our divided society, open to vision a new way forward that fosters life for everyone. Bathed in the fire of the Spirit, we know that we are capable of talking with and listening to one another. The same ancient fire that went in a column before the Israelites as they wandered the desert rests on your head as you look again at the person with whom you are most at odds.
Today is Pentecost. The ever-new presence of God surrounding us, in the very context of our fear and hiding, is given still and again to us today and challenges us to remember.
The power of the Spirit of the resurrected Christ has not diminished. The immense love that God showers in abundance in wind and flame has not changed, and the capacity of God to speak a word from beyond but right into our complicated and frightening reality remains real and true.
Today is Pentecost. Feel the wind in your hair.
--Deb Organ
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