One of our Easter Call to
Prayer chants includes the line “May we live within your Spirit, Lord.” How
exactly are we to do that? We often talk about “putting on the mind of Christ,”
but what does it mean to put on the mind of the Spirit?
One aspect of putting on the
mind of the Spirit that I had never before considered was mentioned by Fr.
Ronald Raab in a reflection in Give Us
This Day: “The Holy Spirit dwells in our humble hearts and loving
imaginations.” Wait a minute: The Holy Spirit dwells in our loving
imaginations? What does it even mean to have a loving imagination? I suspect it
has something to do with seeing as God sees: not the brokenness of a person,
but his or her potential for wholeness and happiness. Not a world that is stuck
in old ways of thinking, but the possibility of change that will benefit
everyone and all things.
Fr. Raab also notes that “the
Holy Spirit gives us courage to live in exuberance, vitality, and expression.”
I’m grateful for the people who give us signs of how to live this way, such as
Sr. Delores Dolezal, who has brightened our lives at the Mount with her
exuberant Easter egg tree. The Holy Spirit is among us—imagine that!
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