![]() ![]() Indeed, these are not drunk, as you suppose, for it is only nine o’clock in the morning. Amazed and astonished, they asked, “Are not all these who are speaking Galileans? And how is it that we hear, each of us, in our own native language? Parthians, Medes, Elamites, and residents of Mesopotamia, Judea and Cappadocia, Pontus and Asia,Phrygia and Pamphylia, Egypt and the parts of Libya belonging to Cyrene, and visitors from Rome, both Jews and proselytes, Cretans and Arabs-in our own languages we hear them speaking about God’s deeds of power.” All were amazed and perplexed, saying to one another, “What does this mean?” But others sneered and said, “They are filled with new wine.”īut Peter, standing with the eleven, raised his voice and addressed them, “Men of Judea and all who live in Jerusalem, let this be known to you, and listen to what I say. And at this sound the crowd gathered and was bewildered, because each one heard them speaking in the native language of each. Now there were devout Jews from every nation under heaven living in Jerusalem. All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other languages, as the Spirit gave them ability. And suddenly from heaven there came a sound like the rush of a violent wind, and it filled the entire house where they were sitting.Divided tongues, as of fire, appeared among them, and a tongue rested on each of them. “When the day of Pentecost had come, they were all together in one place. With that in mind, read the Pentecost text for tomorrow: Instead, the trickster is drawn to the status quo, drawn to predictability, drawn to complacency, drawn to how it’s always been, drawn to contented power, and then, with no small amount of flair and even glee, proceeds to mess it right on up. Now, Hyde is careful to note that while the trickster can cause harm, that’s not the trickster’s primary intent. It’s a stock character in myth, poetry, and prose, and comes in the form of a creature (a raven, a coyote, a fox, Loki) which enters into the world or a context and creates mischief. In this book, Hyde taps into his interest in literature, and takes on the almost universal motif of a trickster. There’s little, that is, that the guy can’t or hasn’t done, and it seems like he’s a super nice guy to boot. So Lewis Hyde is one of those sorts of people whom, it seems, when God was doling out gifts, received more than the usual allotment, as if God tipped the bottle out a little more quickly than intended, like one might with a salt shaker over a pot of soup, and there you go, nothing you can do about it, what’s in there is in there, everything is flavored just that much more. Thanks to him, it’s now clear to me that the Holy Spirit is a trickster. It’s not a theological book, per se, but it’s entirely possible that Hyde’s written one of the best descriptions of the indescribable Holy Spirit ever. ![]() ![]() My copy of Lewis Hyde’s Trickster Makes this World: Mischief, Myth, and Art has almost as many Post-It notes sticking out from its pages as it has pages.Īnd almost anyone who has heard me present over the last decade or come to the Spent Dandelion for a stay or even sat with me over an otherwise innocuous cup of coffee or a cocktail knows that time with me will rarely end before I bust out the book or a cascade of quotes from it. ![]()
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