Pentecost Sunday (B) 2024

INTRO: ANYY RUNNERS OUT THERE?

A friend of mine just ran a ½ marathon. He talked about being in the “FLOW”!!
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I had to look that up.

“FLOW IS A STATE OF BEING WHEN WE ARE COMPLETELY FOCUSED. IN THE FLOW OUR WORK SEEMS EFFORTLESS. WE FEEL INSPIRED AND MOTIVATION SPRINGS FORTH FROM WITHIN!”

Now I want to be clear to help you understand that the “FLOW” is NOT something YOU MAKE HAPPEN. You DON’T DO IT…
IT “DOES” YOU!
You do not find the “flow” …… the “flow” finds you and “carries” you…!!!

This is the day of PENTECOST, where the SPIRIT of GOD, the PARACLETE finds the community, blows through the community…giving us the “flow” of compassion, unity, and PEACE!

The Apostles received that flow way back then…….and so did you and I at our baptism and again in CONFIRMATION.

I could ask… “Do you feel it, now”?
Do you feel the “flow”?
Most of us would honestly say, “NO”!
But the “flow” IS THERE, it is just that we are too busy with many things… human life, worries, crazy violent news happenings, taking us away from being in the “flow” and feeling it!

Believe me…. The HOLY SPIRIT has found you and wants you in the “flow.”

What is the “flow” of life that Jesus wants? Simply, having a good relationship with others.

That is the unity JESUS wanted. KINDNESS and GETTING ALONG WITH OTHERS …. NO JUDGEMENTS and HARSH CRITICISMS.

CONCLUSION:

We are a blessed church community, to be able to gather each weekend and receive the real presence of JESUS CHRIST in HOLY COMMUNION.

He will mold us into His image to be in the “flow” getting along in the world with ALL our brothers and sisters!