Journaling this morning reminded me again that today is Pentecost Sunday. And I came up with this question as I reflected on the Acts 2 story: "How are you, Holy Spirit, bringing newness?" It was difficult to come up with a list. Even if I know there is potential stagnancy I sense in myself and some of those around me, I know this is also my untrained ability to see that newness. God may be making all things new through His Spirit, but I'm often hurtling along on the freeway of life without my mirrors attached.
This reflection from Every Bush Is Burning by Joan Puls captures what I want to believe, and with the Spirit's transforming work also SEE more of this newness in my life and in our cities:
"I believe that nothing human is foreign to the Spirit, that the Spirit embraces all. Our mundane experiences contain all the stuff of holiness and of human growth in grace. Our world is rife with messages and signatures of the Spirit. Our encounters with one another are potential sites of the awakening and energizing that characterize the Spirit. But so much goes unnoticed. We fail so often to recognize the light that shines through the tiny chinks and the dusty panes of our daily lives. We are too busy to name the event that is blessed in its ordinariness, holy in its uniqueness, and grace-filled in its underlying challenge."
Come, Holy Spirit.
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