It’s been a good week at camp. We had 28 campers for Primary Camp. The theme was the Holy Spirit-Power Up. How do you explain something abstract to tangible thinkers i.e., 2nd and 3rd graders? We talked about how the Holy Spirit is like air. You can’t see it but you know it is there. We see air when the wind blows – leaves flutter on the trees, light objects on the ground will blow around. We can hear the wind – the sound of rustling while the leaves blow, the powerful sound of wind when it is strong – shaking the windows of our homes. We can feel air when a gentle breeze cools our skin on a hot summer day.
I gave each child a pinwheel so they could see it spin when the wind blows, and then we created a pinwheel garden in the fountain in front of the dining hall so that they could look at the pinwheels. Not all of them would spin at the same time, but some were spinning nearly all the time depending on the direction of the wind. It got me to thinking about the surprising Holy Spirit, how it is in our lives even though we may not see it. But it is there. Perhaps we see God’s spirit in the way Jesus is mirrored in someone’s actions. Maybe we see the spirit at work in making us one as a church family. Maybe we see the spirit at work in bringing peace in our lives and in our world. As the scripture says, “The wind blows where it chooses, and you hear the sound of it, but you do not know where it comes from or where it goes. So it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit.”
Grace and Peace,
Pastor Carolyn