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Ian El-Paget May 16, 2024 3 2

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Genesis 1: 1-2 (NIVUK)

1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. 2 Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.

God’s creation of a land, of a people, begins with potential, which is a kind rewording of “void and formless”.

You have great potential, God has great plans, but don’t get ahead of God. Wait.

The words of T.S. Eliot are powerful to guide us in this moment.

‘I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope

For hope would be hope for the wrong thing; wait without love,

For love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith

But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting.

Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought:

So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.’

(T.S. Eliot from East Coker, in Four Quartets).

This Pentecost learn a lesson from the beginning of beginnings. Wait for the Holy Spirit, the shaking, hovering vibration of life, resonant life calling forth your true life and being. Life in the Spirit is your only life. In Him we live and move and have our being.

Prayer:

I wait today, for you, Holy Spirit. I choose the silence, the stillness, the waiting. Come and awaken my true life and being, in you, through you, and with you, Amen.