I've just come from the monthly Christ Church gathering at St. John's on the Lake (in some ways every day is a CC gathering at St. John's).  We discussed Keri Day's article, " We Need a Pentecost."  A professor at Princeton Seminary, Day writes of the ways that on that original day of Pentecost, unity in the Spirit transcended traditional boundaries.  People were brought together by the forces of divine love and then became agents of that love in the world.  

In a country increasingly strained by division, we discussed the ways that people who are 80, 90 or older have seen incredible change over their lifetimes in the ways that people from different backgrounds are more open to one another.  People who grew up in a tightly sealed Lutheran world, suspicious of Episcopalians and hostile to Catholics, now witness a cross-fertilization between Christian denominations and even between different faith traditions.  

I'm grateful for those among us who can provide a larger framework for the Spirit's work in our world than the 24 hour (or four hour) news cycle tends to give.  There can be deep wisdom in the long view.  

With hope for ever greater movements of the Spirit within each of us,

Seth+