Pentecost, 2006
Reading Brian McClaren's most recent book, The Secret Message of Jesus, I was struck by the following paragraph about what the "signs and wonders" Jesus performed are trying to tell us:

...God, the good King, is present- working from the inside. The King is in the kingdom and the kingdom is among us here and now- for those who have eyes to see and ears to hear. The King is present in the mess and chaos of everyday life on earth, bringing healing, sight, perception, liberation, wholeness, wholesomeness, movement, health, fullness, noursishment, sanity, and balance. The incursion of the kingdom of God has begun. We are under a gentle, compassionate assault by a kingdom of peace and healing and forgiveness and life.
--p. 60

Today we celebrate that God has given us the same power that did those things through Jesus. The incursion of the kingdom of God into our world continues.

Praise God.