Many times we refuse to let go of the \"good\" while missing God\'s \"best\". Abraham\'s life reminds us that we\'re never too old to face a test. The test comes to bless you not to harm you. Pass your test!

Jeremiah was but a popular prophet because he foretold national calamity and disaster. He decided since no one was listening anyway, he stop trying. But we are all poor judges of our ultimate effectiveness. Only God knows that. So we must not be \"weary in well doing.\" We are called simply to be faithful, leaving our effectiveness to God alone.

Paul, in Romans 5, teaches us that if we will hold space for suffering in our lives, God will produce endurance, character, and hope in us. We don\'t have to white-knuckle anything. We simply have to allow suffering without the need to run from it, reframe it, or repress it. And if we find our way to this \"allowing\", we finally find true hope.

The word liminal comes from the Latin word for threshold. The word makes it into English as lentel, the piece over a door that holds the doorframe in place. Liminality is the condition of being \"neither here nor there,\" neither \"this or that.\" An airport is thus a liminal space, in which one feels situated in some place other than his origin or destination. The Holy Spirit is the liminal face of God, leading us from where we are, to someplace not yet seen or experienced.

God\'s plan from the beginning was to empower a people to know him personally. Priests and prophets were given to model what all of God\'s people can and should be. Pentecost celebrates not only the priesthood of all believers, but the prophetic life of all believers.