It's a fire that burns at the heart. We aren't restful beings who occasionally get restless, but restless beings who occasionally experience some rest. We are perennially restless, driven, hungry, longing creatures, never perfectly in union with others. Beyond Ideology Liberal and conservative are dysfunctional and that what is needed is a radicalism that takes us beyond the selective sympathies of both the right and the left. Such a radicalism can be found only in the gospel which is neither liberal or conservative but fully compassionate.
Every generation needs to experience pentecost for itself.
It needs God's spirit and it needs it in its own particular way. This is even more true when a mother or father is dying. To believe this is to be both consoled and challenged. Consoled, in knowing that we carry each other in love and union, across all distance, even through death. But challenged too in knowing that everything we do, be it ever so private, is either a bad virus or an healthy enzyme affecting the overall health of the body of Christ and the family of humanity.