What, or Who, will we follow in these uncertain times?

 Scripture: Genesis 1:1-5  • Psalm 29  • Acts 19:1-7  •  Mark 1:4-11

Every Epiphany we read about the Baptism of Jesus. In "The 'Great Wind' of God," Dan Clendenin provides a good exegesis of the term for "breath" or Spirit of God, considering one of the two creation stories in Genesis, the baptism of repentance by water by John the Baptist, and baptism of the "Spirit" which descended on Jesus, and later on a group of Ephesians baptized by Paul in the name of Jesus. 

The Rev. Danae M. Ashley asks "Will You  Follow?" the star the Magi followed in this time of pandemic, loss, uncertainty, and uprootedness? She says we are not lost, that God is as close as our breath. Will we follow the star? Will we follow the Spirit?