Sunday, May 23, 2021
“Oh wind, why do you move from a high to a low, is it really important for us to know?”
Pastor Lindsay’s playful (and even, can we say, inspirational?!) poetry about wind and the Holy Spirit during Sunday’s sermon was a perfect set of book-ends for a Pentecost Sunday message on Acts 2. During the sermon, we learned a bit about wind and a cringy poetry assignment, and a whole lot about how the capaciousness of God is blowing us out of our safe, comfortable spaces into the world to speak and act on the Good News of Jesus. The word “capacious” means “roomy or having a lot of space inside.” God’s love and His grace are capacious. The Spirit that He sent on Pentecost Sunday was capacious, and His Spirit that lives in each of us is still capacious.
Are we Spirit-filled disciples? Are we allowing ourselves to be open to the Spirit’s leading? Are we willing to move from our safe spaces to the world around us that is in need of hearing and seeing first-hand the Good News of Jesus?
“Oh wind, why do you blow from a high to a low, because on Pentecost, people needed a Spirit to know.”
