This is Pentecost, the feast day on which we remember the giving of the Holy Spirit, to the church.

Acts 2:2 “ When the day of Pentecost came, they were all together in one place. Suddenly a sound like the blowing of a violent wind came from heaven and filled the whole house where they were sitting. “

Reading this passage today, made me long for the Holy Spirit to breathe into my life. I need the wind they were given, as they gathered together in the earliest days of church history. I need His refreshment in my life and heart, like cold water on a hot and humid day, like the fresh calm that comes after much weeping. As we end the month of May and begin a new month, full of unknowns, I pray you are refreshed and sustained. May His grace blow like a cold wind, into the stagnant parts of our lives. I pray you see Him work miracles, as He always does.

John 14:15-18 “If you love me, you will keep my commandments. And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Helper, to be with you forever, even the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive because it neither sees him nor knows him. You know him, for he dwells with you and will be in you. “I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you.