This week has been one of the most chaotic, confused and confusing weeks of liturgy-planning that I have know for some time.
Maybe it's because of the variety of things we are struggling to bring together -- a wonderful example and image of trusting, collaborative creativity from the Quilt Club, the Pentecost story, Environment Sunday, all-generations worship that needs to be accessible and meaningful for all ages, and communion ... without a sermon ... and intended to be more than just talking about the Spirit that energizes us ... hopefully experiencing and opening in some way to the Spirit of God that has been brooding over, filling and glorifying creation since before the beginning.
How appropriate, perhaps, that the planning has been chaotic and confused -- a swirling sea of possibilities maybe echoing in some small way the chaos so briefly but tantalizingly referred to as our primordial soup in Genesis 1:1, and which the Spirit of God came to bring to wonderful order.
How appropriate too that Pentecost Sunday and Environment Sunday fall on the same Sunday this year, just days after the leader of the second greatest emitter of greenhouse gases has "pulled out" of the Paris Accord. It certainly throws into relief the need of people of faith to step and make their voice heard. Because if the Spirit that we, at least, say energizes us as a church is really the same Spirit that brooded and swept over chaos at the beginning and helped the Word to bring it all into the good, holy, beloved order that we call Earth ... and still broods and breathes over our chaos today with the undying purpose of holy re-ordering ... how can a church that truly is open to, and energized by this Spirit not be engaged tooth and nail and heart and hand in helping to preserve, protect and heal the Earth that God so delighted in making in the first place?
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