Two goldfish were talking one day about whether or not there is a God. And just as fish take water for granted, so also we assume that the air we breathe is simply part of our lives. Like the goldfish, we may speculate about God, but we often overlook the fact that the air in which we live and move and have our being is overwhelming proof of God's presence in our lives.
Today is the Festival of Pentecost, the festival of the Holy Spirit.
We affirm the Holy Spirit as the Third Person of the Trinity. And yet, when pressed, many of us haven't the vaguest idea who the Holy Spirit is. We regard it as esoteric and distant from our lives. To grasp more fully the significance of the Holy Spirit, we begin with the basic function of breathing. When God created the first man in the second chapter of Genesis, he breathed into him the breath of life.