Fr. Tony’s Midweek Message
June 11, 2014
The Spirit and the Web of our Lives
I am starting my second week of vacation with Elena,
starting today from Seattle the trip to Utah for the wedding of a niece in
Utah. We will be back Tuesday of next
week.
In my vacation reading, I came across a wonderful passage
about the Holy Spirit and wanted to share it with you, since this is the week
of Pentecost:
“In the imagination of God and the vast potential of the Spirit is all possibility. From our earliest and most intricate beginnings, we are God’s beloved offspring. Our ever-emerging lives are cradled in the Maker’s hands. In every unfolding occasion, in each shaping moment, at every level of ou becoming, the Spirit of God creates the day’s horizon’s and offers to us a range of relevant possibilities. The Spirit does not impose an agenda upon us, but invites our growth and well-being, in body, mind, soul, and community. The Spirit does not dictate each step or outcome, but graces every emerging moment with the treasure of love and freedom.“We are constantly being born out of the past with its undeniable set of realities, and the Spirit works with those realities. The Spirit also understands the influences pressing upon us in the present. The Spirit honors our capacity for choices and decisions, our struggle to make connections, to assess and interpret, to act with feeling and thoughtfulness in the world with others.“The Spirit holds the web of relationships that supports our lives.”
(--Craig Rennebohm, Souls
in the Hands of a Tender God: Stories of the Search for Home and Healing on the
Streets [Boston: Beacon, 2008], pp. 70-71.)
Grace and Peace,
Fr. Tony+
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