Soaked in the Holy Spirit

What a wonderful time we have during the period we call Eastertide, starting with the festival of Christ’s Ascension, then through to Pentecost, and then on to Trinity Sunday, then on to Corpus Christi, where we start to call Ordinary Time, or Sundays of Trinity.

The church moving from White and Festival vestments, through to the Blood red of Whit Sunday or Pentecost then onto Green of creation and Ordinary Time. This has all made me think of the theme for today’s Blog, that of the Holy Spirit.

I don’t know how many churches I have visited, where the whole issue of the work of the Holy Spirit has been thumbed over and ignored, as it is something that we cannot box in, or something we cannot simply describe using words. Yes we say in our creeds every Sunday, its existence, its works for some, and its simply not there for others.

But how many of us, when we pray

“ We believe in the Holy Spirit, the Lord, the giver of life”

in our Nicene Creed, (which has been in existence over 1750 years and helps combine us together as Orthodox Christians) do we really understand what and how that prayer can change everything about us, can change what and who we are and what we do.

So I have attached a photo hear from one of my walks down beside the sea, seeing the pure power of God in our world, doing those things we may take for granted, but how many of us really reflect upon Gods guidance for creation and how that surrounds us in our world today.

 To finish off I would like to share another story, that a friend shared with me today, she and her wife, went to visit the place where her Dad was born

And she lit a candle and there was a little sign next door to it in a number of languages, French, Deutsch and Nederlands.

But transposing it into English it said,

I light a candle here today to represent my prayers,

I cannot stay here for a long time, but I know as the light raises up to heaven, I know my prayer raises up to heaven too, to join those of the other prayers around me today.

I feel that the prayer that is soaked within this building, is surrounded by the bricks that made this building that are soaked by the work of the Holy Spirit

I open myself to that work, each and every-day, Amen.