Burn, burn, burn Zach Bryan
Scarlet hedgehog cactus
Sermon notes
La Carita (Charity) Carlo Dolci
John 1:5
"God's preference is to be heard and God's preference is to be understood."
Blessed Pentecost! God is a God who wants to speak to you and They don't prefer one language. They are so, so much bigger than a pulpit or the church or Sunday mornings. God will speak in whatever ways you can hear; let yourself listen to the tiny whispers and the little gestures and the tongues that sound foreign to those around you. Hear Them in everything, no matter where They're speaking from.
It's so special to me that Pentecost was the last Sunday before pride month this year. God called me back through the exploration of my own queerness; He spoke to me through the radical, transgressive love I saw. Letting that part of myself out taught me how to embrace God's creation, including myself, just as it is. My religion taught me how to love recklessly and without hesitation, my queerness taught me how to love even the people I am told not to.
The Holy Spirit is reaching for you, desperate to anoint you with Their light. Let yourself reach back.