06-15-21

ECCLESIOLOGICAL ETCHING
June 15, 2021
Scripture: Genesis 1:1-2
In the beginning when God created the heavens and the earth, the earth was a formless void and darkness covered the face of the deep, while a wind from God swept over the face of the waters.

Thought for the Day: Today, June 15, is Global Wind Day, a day to celebrate the growing use of wind energy. Now the Frogges are 100% wind energy at our home in Spring, so it is a day we enjoy. Wind energy, in an oversimplified explanation, is the use of turbines to capture the wind’s energy and transfer it to the power grid. But my strange minister brain leaps to another form of wind energy, the wind spoken of in scripture, including here in the first creation story. In the original Hebrew, the language of the Old Testament, the word is Ruwach. It can be translated as wind, breath or spirit. It is the divine energy moving among us, sweeping over and around us. When our lives of faith are able to capture this energy, it is transferred to the power grid we call the church. Maybe I’m getting a little silly with the comparison, yet I believe this is what Paul described as the power at work within us that “is able to accomplish abundantly far more than all we can ask or imagine…” (Ephesians 3:20). An important question for those of us who call ourselves the church is whether we are really tied into the power source we call the Spirit?

Prayer: In faith and prayer, silence and other disciplines, I seek to connect and draw from your power, Lord of Creation, and use the power for the sharing of your transformative love and mercy. Amen.

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