March 3: Inspired by the Spirit of God
How can the Spirit “move” us?
Genesis 1:1-3
John 16:12-15
“I choose to believe in the activity of the Spirit, moved and moving. The spirit of God repeatedly sweeps over humanity leaving us inspired: to seek God's hopes for each of us, to live into God's intention for the entire body, and to answer the call to participate in the fulfillment of God's ever revealing hopes for the world. The Spirit moves around us. The Spirit moves through us. The Spirit moves in spite of us. And when we are open, the Spirit moves us.” ~Everything Good About God Is True, Bruce Reyes-Chow
On this Breaking Bread Sunday, we focus on the mystery of the Holy Spirit. Even though the Bible portrays the Holy Spirit as a very present and accessible expression of God to us, for many people the Spirit feels abstract, invisible, and even absent. Maybe the Holy Spirit is something we feel but can’t see. Something that pulls us without controlling us. If that’s true, then what can magnetism and animal migration teach us about the Holy Spirit?