".......I believe we experienced community a new way of being community - mindful of mind, body, and spirit - two weeks ago on World Labyrinth Day. So many from our community and beyond came together to create and walk a labyrinth on our main green. Scores of us walked the labyrinth at 1pm in unity with those all over the world who were, “Walking as One at One.”
One person told me afterwards that as she walked the labyrinth she looked down at all the stones that had been painted …then she took to to noticing all the feet that were walking with her …so many feet, going in different directions but all on the same path. ….and the feet represented bodies, and bodies contained hearts. She made connection with her fellow pilgrims in a new way that day. Such new connections are our life blood. They keep is moving forward, outward, onward and upward.
For Pentecost didn’t just happened once, a long, long time ago. Pentecost isn’t over and done. God’s grace is ever being repeated and extended throughout our world. Those thin times when a new spirit breaks into our ordinary existence.
In every possible way the gospel insists that ALL were filled with the Spirit. In other words everyone in this room this morning, students, friends, family, staff, alumnae, faculty, and trustees, all of us are invited to breathe deep of the wildness of God’s Spirit. To what end? To the end that we become prophets, visionaries and dreamers. People who vividly imagine a world different from and better than the world as it is. They denounce injustice. They envision new and better ways of thinking, being and doing. Whatever other spirits may invite you to take certain moral shortcuts, to value profit more than people or to ignore the little, the least the lost, and the last of the word, resist them. It is the prophets, visionaries and dreamers who strive to create the world as it could be –as God intends it to be. Let your human spirit be tuned to the frequency of the Holy Spirit. Stay tuned to that frequency and you are already on your way to becoming a prophet, a visionary, a dreamer
Class of 2013, in the mystery of your life, may you be conscious of the unfolding Pentecost within you. May you continue to live the labyrinth, rather than the maze. May you breathe deep and breathe well. May you look forward to living every day in the world; delight in your own vibrancy and resilience; marvel at your ability to imagine; stretch to feel the emotions of the heart; shape words and work and visions not yet dreamed." AMEN
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