Loving God,
aware of your loving presence through your Holy Spirit,
we come to you, as we are.
Calm us, prepare us and take away the stress of our daily lives.
Breathe into our hearts, the cooling calm love of your Spirit.
Take our worries and our anxieties and enable us to worship you.
Come, Holy Spirit, come!
Amen.
Day 1 (Acts 2:13) The disciples were gathered, filled with the Holy Spirit, and touched by flames of the one God. They were heard by others as though they were speaking in native tongues. Yet, even with the power of the Holy Spirit, there were some who thought they were mad, drunk, making it all up. God will never force faith upon anyone. We have freewill to respond to the nudging of the Spirit...
Come Holy Spirit, come!
Come into our hearts and fill is with God’s love.
Come into our church and guide us in God’s ministry.
Come into our world and transform people’s hearts with God’s love.
Come Holy Spirit, come!
(Acts 2:1-21) And we’ve arrived. We’ve hit the end of the events in the liturgical year. Now breathe. Is that how you see Pentecost? The end of the story? But Pentecost is just the beginning. Jesus’ ministry, death and resurrection was a pregnant pause that looked forward to the new birth for humanity: the new covenant. Pentecost is just the beginning! In Ancient Israel, Pentecost was known as...
