Flying

EZ 2: 2-5

Personal opinion: I doubt the Holy Spirit feels the same to everyone.  I doubt the Holy Spirit works the same way for everyone.

But it's hard not to equate, for me, with the magic of the stage on a sick actor.  My platonic example of this is my friend performing Shakespeare with the flu who would bound around the stage with tremendous athleticism then immediately curl up on a makeshift couch backstage.  I've done it myself, it's a real thing that feels different from time to time.  Like you're dumb determination is the thing that's gonna suddenly fail halfway through a scene to "Wow, I really didn't notice that I was injured until I hit the wings".

A lot of my students are enduring that.

And that's what struck me today from the readings.  "As the Lord spoke to me, the spirit entered into me and set me on my feet."

There are any number of ways to do something like that.  Ranging probably like the power of Showmanship (the collective kind) from "I can't believe I'm doing this and that it's working" to "Suddenly all of this is easy?"

I wonder how often we have the Spirit enter us and don't clock it because it's not the way we think of the Holy Spirit entering our lives directly?  If we call it intuition or it seems hard to us, so we forget how petulant Jonah was all through the Nineveh story. 

And I also wonder why I never realized the Holy Spirit is a theatre fan.