Drew Downs

Make a New Normal

For Sunday

  • Wrestling with the nature of the Trinity is hard enough. When we connect it with the Great Commission? It gets harder.

  • When reading of the Pentecost, our minds are split: do we focus on the miracle of it, or on what God is revealing?

  • This week’s gospel invites us to ask a deep question about faith and the Holy Spirit. What if she’s in us now?

  • The idea of needing to know what to do and where to go is so natural. This is why Jesus says we already know.

  • In our reading, Jesus switches metaphors. From one we like to one that is more troubling. But it doesn’t have to be.

  • A reflection on the gospel for this week – on the sharing and the giving and the being with that comes through Jesus.