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Reflection from your Pastor
May 21, 2024
The Spirit Abides
Sunday was Pentecost, the coming of that mysterious Spirit that swirls its energy of love into and around all creation, visible and invisible: the Spirit abides. When we think about this Spirit as a Whole or wholeness, she can be thought of as the Spirit of Christ. Christ is Omega and we have the freedom to choose what, Ilia Delio calls, ‘Christic.’
Ilia Delio’s prayer from The Not-Yet-God opens to the mystery of the Holy Spirit:
I am looking at a tree, but I see such astounding beauty and
graciousness, the tree must be You, O God,
I look at the wild weeds playing across the fields, and their
wild joyful freedom speaks to me of You, O God.
Yesterday I saw a child crying alone on a busy corner, and
the tears were real, and I thought, you must be crying, O God.
God, you are mystery within every leaf and grain of sand,
in every face, young and old, you are the light and beauty
of every person.
You are Love itself.
Will we ever learn our true meaning, our true identity?
Will we ever really know that we humans are created for
Love?
For it is love alone that moves the sun and stars
and everything in between.
We are trying too hard to find You, but You are already here,
We are seeking life without You, but You are already within,
Our heads are in the sand, our eyes are blinded by darkness,
Our minds are disoriented in our desperate search
for meaning.
Because You are not what we think You are:
You are mystery.
You are here and You are not,
You are me and You are not,
You are now and you are not,
You are what we will become.
You are the in-between mystery
the infinite potential of infinite love,
And it is not yet clear what You shall be,
For we shall become something new together.
We are free to open our awareness into God. Like the disciples on Pentecost in the upper room when they heard the roar of the wind they were awakened and alert, so we are asked to be awake and alert to that depth within ourselves which is God. Just as the power of the ‘burning into us’ fire transformed both the disciples and those who could hear, the fire burns away what hides and reveals what is hidden. The continuing work for is coming home to ourselves; a call, a constant and consistent call, deep within us that longs for God. “Our hearts are restless until they rest in Thee.” (St. Augustine)
It seems to be an urgent call in our time for us to be transformed so that all of creation may be transformed, brought closer to the wholeness that is God. We have hope when we remember that each breath, each thought, each action has impact.
As we enter in this season of Ordinary Time may we come awake, alert, and with a
wonderment of who Jesus is and what is being asked of us.
Through Christ, with Christ, and in Christ, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, all glory and honor is yours, God of Mystery, for ever and ever.
Pastor Jane
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