Pentecost is tomorrow

and I wrote a blog!

I wrote a blog post about being ready for Pentecost for my church. You can read it here! I hope you do. <3 Here’s a little taste —

The Spirit who will descend on us tomorrow is the One who “was hovering over the face of the waters” when the earth was a formless deep. He is the Breath the Word breathed into the first human’s nostrils. He is the pillar of smoke and fire who led the Israelites in the wilderness. . . .

The Spirit who will come is the same Holy Spirit by whom Mary became pregnant with the Son of God, who — by the power of the Spirit — was made man in her womb. He is the One who descended on Christ at his baptism. That day, the Spirit came in the form of a dove as the Father declared Christ “my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased,” and then immediately drove Christ into the wilderness to fast and be tempted. The Spirit who will come is the One who proceeds from the Father and the Son, and who is one with them.

At Pentecost we, with the disciples, wait and ready ourselves for the Holy Spirit to come. 

May we be ready to receive the Spirit when He comes in His wisdom, as He chooses to come. For he will come. And it is our task to receive.

Pax, friends.