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Growing in Grace: The Spirit in Ordinary Time
The long green season of Ordinary Time — those weeks stretching from Pentecost through the autumn — can feel, on the surface, like a quiet stretch after the heights of Easter and Pentecost. But the Church has always understood this season not as a pause but as a time for learning. These are the weeks when the Spirit, poured out upon the whole people of God at Pentecost, goes about the patient, unglamorous, and utterly essential work of faith formation. The Spirit does not only descend in tongues of fire; it also moves in the ordinary rhythms of prayer, conversation, forgiveness, and service — teaching us, as Jesus promised, all things, and guiding us into truth—one ordinary day at a time.

This is good news for ordinary people. Most of us do not live at the mountaintop. We live in kitchens and cubicles, in waiting rooms and carpool lines, in neighborhoods where the kingdom of God is not yet fully come. And it is precisely there — in the texture of the everyday — that the Spirit does its deepest work: quietly convicting, gently comforting, and slowly shaping us into the likeness of Christ. The green vestments of this season is the color of growth. We are invited to pay attention, to look for where the Spirit is already moving in our daily lives, and to open our hearts to the slow, green, and important work of being made new.

Blessings and peace,

The Reverend Kiona Lookingbill

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