EVE OF PENTECOST --REDUX -- Still Waiting

Tomorrow is the Day of Pentecost. (Again)

The nave of Trinity Church is presently adorned with all manner of glorious red. The red will remind us of the vision of fiery tongues that appeared to rest atop the heads of Jesus' followers at the end of a ten day prayer meeting in an upper room that overlooked the crowded city streets of Jerusalem. Those streets were teeming with pilgrims from all over the known world, who were in town for a religious festival.

I wonder if we will see any fiery apparitions.

I wonder if we will hear any Good News that enlivens us with a passion for God.

I wonder if we will leave worship tomorrow with our souls singed by holy fire?
Or shattered by holy wind?
Does the Spirit have a Ghost of a chance?

I wrote the above sentences last year. Tomorrow will be the fifth Day of Pentecost since my arrival here. I'm still waiting for something (or Some One!) that will so "fire us up" that we won't be able to keep our mouths shut...that we will have to tell someone about the experience we had -- at church, no less! 

Hey, a priest can hope, can't he?

Come Holy Spirit! For God's sake (and ours)!