I reached for a new spiritual reading selection and found myself gravitating towards Sober Intoxication of the Spirit. Not only does the book align nicely with the feast and season of Pentecost, but also I really like the title. It encapsulates how I've been feeling lately: a little woozy, inebriated, yet happy!
To be clear, the book isn't promoting drunkenness and neither am I (in fact, I'm thinking about fasting from alcohol during my nomadic travels), but the idea of being led by the Spirit of God is that you don't quite know what's going on but you're all right with that. And in my spiritual preparation for setting out, that's what I'd like to cultivate. I'm all right with the uncertainty. I'm secure in the fact that God is with me.
I've always been struck by the verse, "[D]o not be anxious beforehand what you are to say; but say whatever is given you in that hour, for it is not you who speak, but the Holy Spirit" (Mark 13:11b). I'm always thinking ahead of time what I should do or say, it's like a reflex. What would it look like to let go of that kind of preparation and instead let the Holy Spirit do something amazing through me?
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