Reflection on the Feast of Pentecost

This weekend, we celebrate the Feast of Pentecost. Like all the rest of humanity, the people who were inspired by the Holy Spirit to write our scriptures used their unique ways of expressing how they experienced the Presence of the Divine in their lives. We are called to allow the Spirit dwelling within us since our creation to inspire us to hear what the Spirit wants us to grasp with our hearts as we reflect on what we read and listen to. Today we celebrate not so much that the Holy Spirit first became part of the peoples’ lives, but that they became aware of that Presence for the first time or in a very new way. The process that led to this blessed realization was their reflecting on and praying together about their experiences of Jesus when He was physically with them. We pray that as we celebrate this time of awakening for Jesus’ first followers, that we, too, would be awakened anew to the Presence of the Holy Spirit in our lives. That we would allow the Spirit to energize us to work together with one another and the Spirit to transform our church and world into what God created them to be.