Reflection for the Season after Pentecost

After the fire of Pentecost, the Church enters its longest season – marked by green, the color of growth. This ordinary time is anythingbut ordinary: it is the season when discipleship takes root and deepens, when the daily work of following Christ becomes our steady rhythm.

The spiritual Plenty Good Room echoes the call of this season. God’s kingdom is not only revealed in mountaintop moments or holy days, but in the steady unfolding of daily life – plenty good room for us to grow in love, service, and generosity. Each ordinary day becomes a chance to choose our seat at God’s table and to make space for others.

Ordinary Time reminds us that stewardship is not seasonal; it is a way of life. Our choices about how to use our time, our resources, and our energy are all acts of discipleship. We are called to see that God’s abundance is present in the regular, even mundane, moments – when we teach a child, share a meal, volunteer in our community, or support the ongoing mission of the church.

Scarcity whispers that the everyday does not matter, that only the grand gestures or the extraordinary count. But God reveals that holiness is woven into the fabric of daily living. The parables of Jesus are full of seeds, bread, lamps, and coins, ordinary things that reveal extraordinary truths. In this long season of green growth, we are invited to trust that our daily generosity – whether in prayer, presence, or financial support – nurtures a flourishing Heavenly Kingdom.

The long green season is where faith matures. Just as plants deepen their roots and stretch toward the sun, so too do we grow when we practice steady generosity, gratitude, and hospitality. By tending the ordinary with extraordinary love, we join the Spirit in making plenty good room for all. This season after Pentecost, let us continue to sow seeds of generosity, trusting that God will bring the growth. There is plenty good room – for steady discipleship, for flourishing communities, for a harvest of grace.

“Let us not grow weary in doing what is right, for we will reap at harvest time, if we do not give up.” — Galatians 6:9
 

Questions for Reflection:
Planned Gifts (legacy gifts) are a way of planting seeds that mature over a long time.
Have you considered making a gift from your estate
to support the mission of your congregation?

J. Davey Gerhard is the Executive Director of TENS and believes in God’s all-inclusive invitation to find Love when we are gathered together. He lives, works, and worships in San Francisco, California.