The Holy Spirit plays right field
Numbers 11: 24-30 New Ark United Church of Christ, Newark, DE May 24, 2026 – Pentecost Sunday Photo of a baseball glove with a baseball tucked inside, laying on a grassy field with trees in the background and blue sky with puffy white clouds. Anyone here ever get picked last for the team, or at least not in the top five? Maybe you know what it’s like to sit on the bench or to be not included at all. It’s not a great feeling, but as I’ve heard it said, “Sometimes it's the very people who no one imagines anything of who do the things no one can imagine." In 1986, Peter, Paul, & Mary released a song entitled “Right Field”. It’s about a kid who gets stuck in the baseball equivalent of exile, where they can’t do any harm to the team. The kid is resigned to their place in the world—“you can be awkward, you can be slow, that’s why I’m in right field”—and because not much is expected of them, they don’t pay attention to the inning or what the score is, so they’re just watc...
