The Season of Pentecost is the long “green season” of the church year, when green is the predominant color of stoles and lectern hangings. Green is the color of the Holy Spirit according to 12th century German mystic Hildegaard of Bingen. And this time, according to the liturgical year, marks the time when we discover how “voluble” God has become. To quote from Anglican poet R.S. Thomas, God “addresses me from myriad directions with the fluency of water, the articulateness of green leaves; in the genes, too, the components of my existence….I listen to things around me: weeds, stone, instruments, the machine itself, all speaking to me in the vernacular of the purposes of One who is.”

In this extended season we are given opportunities again and again to discover for ourselves the presence of God in our lives, in our relationships, in the various dimensions of this earth’s remedial journey. “Ordinary time” is the name given to this season by some. I suggest it is never “ordinary time.”