In The Spirit We Are Made Kin

This week in the church calendar is the celebration of Pentecost, when the Holy Spirit fell on the early believers. This poem builds off of that celebration, reminding us what the Spirit came for. Pray this, ponder this, and let it speak to you (and remember that multiple times in the scriptures the Spirit is referred to in the feminine).

In The Spirit We Are Made Kin

Pentecost has come
A rush of violent wind has blown through
Breathing new order and new life
Overturning systems of hierarchy and death 

Defying logic, patriarchy, and empire
Spirit joins us in mystery, kinship, and belonging
Where intimacy and relationality form a new reality
And displacement has no home 

Her blazing love reaches beyond borders
Rejoining diaspora
Reuniting families
Reviving memories
Restoring stolen languages, peoples, and lands 

We are intimately joined as one
No longer forced to assimilate
No longer desiring control over one another
Spirit has come to make us holy again, to make us whole again
In Her we are kin 

As Spirit comes to us, on us, and with us
May Her liberating force lead us
To reimagine and rebuild a dignifying world for all relatives 

-        DecolonizingTheology