“Although we long to be in each other’s homes, we do find common healing in God’s home - the outdoors. That is where we can find relief right now… and it is outdoors that different people can find the different gifts of the spirit - some are awed, some find counsel in walks with friends, some study nature and build their knowledge on family hikes, some share wisdom about planning a vegetable first garden, some seek understanding of their own muddled, frustrated thoughts sitting on the front steps at midnight with their mom, some find that the holiness of our sanctuary is also any space outside where they can see other people again, strangers or family or neighbors, kept safer by open air, wind, the Holy Spirit.”
Graduating senior Ellen Jennings preaches on Pentecost.
Lectionary Readings:
Acts 2:1-21
1 Corinthians 12:3b-13
John 7:37-39