Picasso’s simple line-drawing, with the biblical allusion of the dove and the olive leaf, I find profoundly moving, and poignant, in a world where violence is often the preferred method of communication. This Pentecost, may the Spirit of peaceful communication enable us to find olive leaves to offer one another.
Picasso, Pentecost and Haiku
Invading Spirit,
Gatecrash our solemnity
With holy fervour.
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The Church that’s drinking
Intoxicating Spirit
Never lost for words.
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Rushing mighty wind,
Hurricane force holiness,
Mission impelled church.
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Searing tongues of flame
"Inextinguishable blaze",
Purify our hearts.
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Speak in other tongues,
Of love, of peace, of pardon,
People reconciled.
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Tower of Babel,
Communication breakdown,
New hermeneutic.
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Pentecostal gift,
As given, Giving, Giver,
"The Go-Between God".
Jim Gordon, Pentecost, 2007
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