‘The heavens are telling the glory of God, and the firmament proclaims his handiwork’, so writes the Psalmist, and we would echo those words, Lord God, as we revel in the beauty and wonder of the world around us in this season of high summer. And yet we have even more to celebrate in this month, Lord, in the coming of your Holy Spirit at Pentecost, the Birthday of the Church. As you breathed life into your creation, so you breathed new life into those first apostles, sending them out in the power of your Spirit with a commission and a passion to spread the Good News of Jesus far and wide. So stir us up as your people, your Church in our generation, Lord. Fill us afresh with your Holy Spirit, and set our hearts on fire with such love for you that we may be worthy of our calling as disciples of Jesus Christ and as messengers of the Gospel, and all of it to your praise and glory.
Amen
Liz Stuart