try to catch the wind

Monday May 12th, Acts 2: 16 this is what was spoken by the prophet Joel: 17 " 'In the last days, God says, I will pour out my Spirit on all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your young men will see visions, your old men will dream dreams. 18 Even on my servants, both men and women, I will pour out my Spirit in those days, and they will prophesy. The spirit is not the sole, or soul possession of the few, but the gift to the many. To hold onto it is as useful as reaching out and grabbing a handful of wind. Like the wind it only works when it blows through. And when it blows through and out into the world, we are no longer in charge of where it goes or to whom it goes. Most of human history has been beset with wars, I wonder if that would be true if a basic human understanding was that the same spirit of life, of love, of God, is in the other as in the self? To understand that to take the life of another is to take not only that life, but also to attempt to take or destroy love, and God, and self? God has already shown us that love and God prevail, that is the story of Easter. What is hurt the most, is the self.