HOLYBOLDNESS

Pastor’s Note continued from page one.

You may recognize the prayer you see on page one as the words we share at the very end of our Great Thanksgiving prayer we say every time we gather for Holy Communion. It’s exquisite, isn’t it? Full of hope, promise, longing. And it’s a holy, bold request and proclamation - that we might be one! Whole! Unified! With Jesus! With one another! In purpose and service to the world! Drawing us into the Kingdom of God! This echoes the very prayer that Jesus prays on behalf of his disciples just before his arrest in John’s Gospel (John 17), just after the Last Supper and his farewell address (John 13-16).

Would you pray this prayer regularly, daily, with me and one another over these next weeks as we move into this season after Pentecost? Let it summon us to the communion table each week for a season. Let the prayer and the sacrament draw us into the presence of the Holy Spirit and the holy, bold work the Holy Spirit is doing in and through us. Let’s come to the Table to re-member and to be re-membered, that is, to be put back together. And we need to be put back together in all sorts of ways, don’t we? As individuals, as friends and neighbors, as people who live in a divided and broken world, as people who long for union with God. The Holy Spirit, in all the ways she comes to us, in all the ways we experience her, is seeking to do just this: to make us one with Christ, one with each other, one in ministry to all the world! May it be so! Come, Holy Spirit, Come!

Peace and love, Pastor Jenny