‘Ascension Day, when Jesus returns to God in heaven – the end of his time on earth – he promises the Holy Spirit will come to comfort and guide his disciples in God’s ways of love and help us be the people we have it in us to be, our best selves.

The Holy Spirit makes a difference, changes things, like the wind, like love. We can’t see the wind, we can’t see love but we can see and feel the difference they make. We can’t see God’s Holy Spirit but we can feel the difference in ourselves when we openourselves to God, when we pray and worship him. Like a pilot light igniting in and powering a boiler, the Holy Spirit bursts into life in us, giving us new vision, inspiring us to be like Jesus, in love and service.

‘Love, love changes everything: how you live and how you die… love will turn your world around, and that world will last forever…. nothing in the world will ever be the same… love will never ever let you be the same.’ (from the musical ‘Aspects of Love’). Try replacing ‘love’ with ‘God… with ‘the Holy Spirit’… and you’ll get the picture!

with love and prayers

Jenny