Fragmented and Afraid
The story of Pentecost begins long before Pentecost. In the beginning, the divine love of the Trinity gathered together out of chaos all the fragments of creation – quarks and strings; light and energy; bits and pieces of nothing – and made it into something; made it into life itself. The story of humanity is one long string of ways in which we divide, categorize, separate and fragment what God put together. On Pentecost, the power of the Spirit swept into motion erasing the boundaries of language and then every subsequent dividing line to put things back together and erase our fear. ALL who call on the name of the Lord will be saved (reconciled, forgiven, reunited and put back together). And that means ALL. No more fragments. No more fear.