05/25/2026
ACTS 2 -1-4
When the day of Pentecost had come, they were all together in one place.  And suddenly from heaven there came a sound like the rush of a violent wind, and it filled the entire house where they were sitting.  Divided tongues, as of fire, appeared among them, and a tongue rested on each of them.  All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other languages, as the Spirit gave them ability.
I imagine that at the end of the day that beautiful day of Pentecost: after the tongues had stopped speaking every possible language, after the delirium of the presence of the Spirit had soothed; after visitors and residents had made their way to their intended physical destinations, the sweetness of God’s presence lingered within each there that day. Once seen it couldn’t be unseen. Once heard it couldn’t be unheard. Once felt it couldn’t be said it is impossible.
Fall on us anew, O God, these millennia later, that we might know - with certainty - the power of your Holy Spirit that supersedes all doubts and supplants all earthly powers. The faithful on that day were all together in one house. All of them sheltered in that house, as they left its safety to join others outside, found out your Spirit was intended for all. What a marvelous, expanded revelation it must have been for them.
Help us access and experience the power of your spirit so we may be together for good.
Rev. Cheryl F. Dudley
