Most of us feel really comfortable with God the Father and God the Son, but
perhaps we don’t quite know what to do with God the Spirit. I remember one of the prisoners once telling me – Father Lincoln – I pray all
the time to God the Father and to Jesus, but I just don’t know how to pray to
the Spirit. Today’s reading from the book of Wisdom states that “in Wisdom is a spirit;”
then it lists over twenty different adjectives and attributes that are
characteristics of Wisdom and of its spirit. We could probably spend a great deal of time meditating on just one of these
adjectives or attributes. The author of the Book of Wisdom asserts, “Wisdom, the fashioner of all things,
taught me.” In our life of faith, do we see God’s spirit fashioning us and molding us and
forming us, or do we relying entirely on our own will, our own intuition, our
own desires? Further, the author states – “Wisdom is “a breath of the power of God, and a
pure emanation of the glory of the Almighty.” May the breath of God come upon us today, enlightening us, molding us, and
guiding us. Perhaps the concept of God’s spirit is a difficult one to understand and grasp,
but if we open ourselves to the mystery of the Spirit that is at work in our
lives and in the world, it can work wonders in us.
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