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The Sunday after Easter is sometimes called "Low Sunday..." As Barbara Brown Taylor noted, this is because "The attendance is low and so is the adrenaline." It is the week after all the hype and the resurrection joy. But now it's a week later. So now what? Christ is Risen. Does it matter? Eastertide is a church season in which we might answer, "Yes." And so this week we begin our series on the Holy Spirit and consider the mini-Pentecost before Pentecost, when Jesus breathed on his disciples and said, "Receive the Holy Spirit." We too, inhale this breath of New Creation, this resurrection life, and it animates us as the Body of Christ to come out from behind locked doors and oxygenate the world with the Love of God. This God-breath of the Spirit revives us and resuscitates us even in the "low places" of a broken world. For the Spirit who raised Jesus from the grave, can also raise us up in that Resurrection Life.