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The manifold works of the Lord Psalm 104  Dottie and I vacationed in Utah just a couple of weeks ago. We visited the canyon-lands of Utah and Arizona, gazing upon the beauty of Bryce Canyon, Zion Canyon, and the Grand Canyon. The sights effectively strike one mute, for it is seemingly impossible at first to put into words that which one is seeing and feeling. And thus the grandeur of this creation is accompanied by a strange yet wonderful silence. It’s not uncommon to hear folks, who otherwise have no use for religion or the church, speak about ‘seeing God’ in such natural wonders.                                                   You blanketed earth with ocean,                                          covered the mountains with deep waters;                                     Then you roared and the water ran away-                                          your thunder crash put it to flight.                                     Mountains pushed up, valleys spread out                                          in the places you assigned them. (The Message)  It’s easier to speak with rapture about mountains, forests, oceans, and wild creatures than it is to do so about humanity. And yet – here we find ourselves on Pentecost Sunday, the day on which the disciples were visited by that rush of violent wind and by those tongues of fire. The Holy Spirit filled them, and the babel sounds filled the room in which they were gathered – among others, the sounds of Chinese, Polish, Korean, German, French, Japanese, English, Hungarian, Kenyan, Ethiopian, Hebrew, Afrikaans, Russian, Spanish, and of course Dutch - all being tossed together, overlapping and yet harmonizing with each other in a veritable symphony of language and culture. No wonder those gathered were amazed and perplexed all at once.  That’s the birth of the church, an event with the awesome power to make us still - if we really take the time to hear, to listen, and to think about it. Different people, with different tongues, and yet all of one marvelous and awesome Creation and Creator. What a piece of work is man, and what an awesome gift of the Holy Spirit with which we are endowed and entrusted. We are the ones charged with the responsibility of witnessing on behalf of the Christ. What an awesome task. What a glorious charge to keep we have. Spirit of the living God, fall afresh on us, your great and wonderful creation.  - Pastor Piet - June 4, 2006