Tuesday May 30, 2023

Mark 10:28-31

The most favorite part of my vocation is definitely preaching and celebrating the sacraments. I absolutely love it. There is also my least favorite part of this vocation —- making sure our books are balanced or to put it bluntly — asking for money. It stresses me to no end but I have to make sure our doors remain open. So please remember Rabbouni in your financial planning this summer.

Now back to my favorite thing. Did you receive the Holy Spirit? As a church we have a complicated relationship with the Holy Spirit. We love it when it is contained or domesticated. But a wild Holy Spirit is a dangerous thing indeed. Think about this—- at creation Gods Creative Spirit hovered above the heavens and then it crushed on the earth. I would imagine that was some creative chaos. On Pentecost the same spirit crushed on those locked in the upper room. It wasn’t ordered displacement but confusion then growth.

So did you have some chaos in your life? That’s when you know the Holy Spirit is above you. I want to start a new thing. Whenever I am in a whirlwind, I will ask what God is up to. I will embrace it as my baptism in the Spirit.