Greetings,

This coming Sunday is Pentecost, the day when Christians around the world celebrate the formation of the church, the day when the Holy Spirit came and called people into community as Christ’s body and blessed them. This day is a special day in the church calendar and we mark it by reading again the story as told in Acts 2, wearing a splash of red, or singing hymns which emphasise the Spirit.

I sometimes think that when we remember things as happening in the past, we relegate them to that time only. The coming of the Holy Spirit is something we can’t explain and partly because of this, I wonder if we are less open to that being a reality for us now.

In the 1960’s the song Spirit of God was written by Medical Mission Sister Miriam Therese Winter, an American Roman Catholic feminist musician, theologian and writer. While its words are primarily about the Spirit in creation, they also bring a prayer that is just as relevant for us today.

Spirit of God in the clear running water

Blowing to greatness the trees on the hill

Spirit of God in the finger of morning

Fill the Earth, bring it to birth

And blow where you will

Blow, blow, blow ’til I be

But the breath of the Spirit blowing in me

May our prayer be that the Spirit of God will blow within each of us and that we will be receptive to what the Spirit offers us.

Blessings – Heather (she/her).