Jun 8, 2025 | Pentecost, writing
The crowd gathered and was bewildered, because each one heard [the disciples] speaking in the native language of each. Amazed and astonished, they asked, “Are not all these who are speaking Galileans? … [Yet] in our own languages we hear them speaking about...
May 21, 2024 | joy, Pentecost
O Wisdom, how diverse are your works! In the great sea alone, there are countless creeping critters and all sizes of living things! Humans build ships to cross it, but you form Leviathan to play in it. – Psalm 104:24-26 (adapted) I’m sitting at the end of a...
Jun 9, 2019 | discipleship, images of God, Pentecost, prayer
Holy Spirit, Wild Wind, on this day of Pentecost we are gathered. We are alternately full of fire and fizzling, courageous and tentative, gifted by dreams and haunted by worries. In other words, this holy day finds us to be still wholly human. Will you fill us up?...
May 20, 2018 | Pentecost, prayer
How good and generous you are, O Holy Potter, to create us and equip us with diversity! How wise and provocative you are, O Blessed Other, to call us out when we would withdraw into! How lavish and surprising you are, O Divine Vessel, to pour spirit over us and and...
May 15, 2016 | Pentecost, prayer
Ah LORD God: how is it that you give all good gifts? With an open hand and a spirit of grace you give, and in gratitude we receive you. Dear Sweet Spirit: how is it that we each hear you whispering our names? With an uninhibited holiness and a prophetic heart you...
May 24, 2015 | images of God, Pentecost, prayer
How great you are, O God our God, and how foolish are we to call you ours! Your power cannot be measured, your holiness cannot be contained. Without you, we are entirely hopeless … with you, we are completely unsettled. How to choose: between your Consuming Fire...
