The Season of Pentecost

Our skies this summer have been full and busy ? some days with big fluffy, white clouds that beg us to imagine something familiar floating up above us. Other days with heavy dark clouds that made it seem like twilight in the middle of the afternoon. A couple of nights were lit up with God?s fireworks even before we reached the Fourth of July. And just this week an immense amount of rain fell in what seemed to be only minutes. And one never knew when the wind might rise to dangerous or destructive speeds, bringing sirens and warnings with them.

In Psalm 104, the psalmist listens to creation, celebrating its immensity and acknowledging all of creation?s utter dependence on God to give life. As we live these summer days we are in the season of Pentecost, the season of the Spirit. Pentecost not only brings new life to the church but God?s Spirit also brings new life to the earth. God abandons neither those with broken hearts, nor the bruised and broken world. We are called to participate in the redemption of both. What can each of us do to care for God?s world that its wonder might go on unscarred by our presence?