Dear St. Lukers,
Where have you seen the Holy Spirit this week?
We launched our wilderness journey last week being reminded that even – or especially – in the wilderness, God provides for us. God shows up with what we need to make the journey through the wildernesses of our lives.
This week, we begin naming the elements that are often used as God’s means of grace in those wilderness times. So again, I wonder – where have you seen the Holy Spirit show up in your wilderness this week?
The camp I grew up going to had a tradition in our wilderness camps of what we called “Goodnights.” At the end of each day, the way we said “goodnight” as a group was to name where we had seen God that day. There’s a good chance you’ve participated in a similar ritual – whether you called it “God sightings” or “glory sightings,” or just a response to the question of “Where have you seen God today?”
While we usually use the full Trinitarian language of “where have you seen God,” in those moments what we’re really talking about is where we’ve seen the movement of the Holy Spirit. How have we been open to noticing what’s around us in a different way? How have we chosen a posture of awareness for what God might do among us? It’s why we have invited you to...
