The music was fantastic at the Maundy Thursday service. Cheryl and Jane played an arrangement of ‘What Wondrous Love Is This’ (on organ and piano respectively) which truly just took me away. I looked up from my seat in the choir to the beautiful stained glass window pouring the evening sun over the balcony and closed my eyes to better delve into the music. The negative imprint of the stained glass frame in glowing white was displayed through my closed eyelids. A shape of the human brain (a line drawing as in the encyclopedia) was transposed over it in my mind. ‘The sun in my mind’ I thought.
On the way home I told my husband the beautiful vision. He said “You have active imagination. Don’t forget we have to take the garbage out when we get home.”
The next morning my devotional was on Philippians 2:5 with reference to 1 Corinthians 2: 16 that Jesus’ mind was their inheritance – ‘the Son in my mind?’
As God took Christ home, the Spirit was left to continue His work. In the early church, miracles were performed by calling upon the Holy Spirit and seeking healing. The blind could see, the deaf could hear and the possessed were set free. The Holy Spirit remained, but our human egos put conditions and restrictions in place. Those who were afraid gave way to those who were not and the church leaders became rulers and owners of the ‘keys’ to church. We humans bought into the programs and gave away our faith and trust to be comfortable.
She is still here, waiting to be invited into every heart. The Spirit of the Trinity, of God has trouble making contact through the noise, the hardened intellects, the all too sure reality seekers, and the fearful multitudes which seem to dominate our modern world.
Am I crazy, probably, at least a little, but I believe we are missing out on so much because we fail to just ask. And once we have asked to truly pay attention. She does not lead, She nudges. She does not command, but whispers. “The wind blows … ”
I am Darcy Dill, a student at UTS working on a Masters of Divinity with emphasis on Church Renewal. My views are not to reflect in anyway on the Seminary or on Sidney First UMC, just ramblings from my mind.
Tags: Christianity, religion, spirit
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