6/2/19
Acts 2: 1-14a, 15-18
Ps. 104
Rom 8: 22-26
Luke 24: 36-49a
“We are Parthians, Medes, and Elamites, people from Mesopotamia, Judea, and Cappadocia…Yet we hear them preaching, each in our own language, about the marvels of God!” We are Judeans, or converts to Judaism, Arabs, Greeks, Romans, yet we hear the same God speaking to us. We are wealthy, we are slaves, we are farmers, merchants, teachers, and make our living by fishing, yet these Galileans, proclaim we are all one in the same Holy Spirit.
Today, we speak Hebrew, and Spanish, and Arabic, and Haitian Creole, and German, and Tagalog, yet these followers of Jesus, they are speaking our language. We are women and men, and transgender, and intersex, and gay and bisexual, and these Christians want all of us to know their God’s love. We are immigrants, we are refugees, we are migrant workers, we are undocumented, yet we are all animated by the same spark of life. We are Republicans, Democrats, conservatives, progressives, socialists, and environmentalists, yet Christ’s followers recognize us as siblings and family. They see not only all people, but all of God’s creatures, as endowed with dignity. We are women whose rights are threatened, we are children who have been abused, we are young black and brown men disproportionately incarcerated, we are addicts longing for recovery, we are differently abled people who can’t find jobs, yet Jesus said we will be healed together as one. We are all different, but the promised Spirit has been poured out upon all of us. And if we open our eyes, we can see the tongues of fire.
Come, Holy Spirit, fill the hearts of your faithful, and kindle in us the fire of your love.
Send forth your Spirit, and they shall be created: And you will renew the face of the earth.
So, how do you see the Holy Spirit acting in our world?
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