Hi everyone, happy Pentecost day to those that mark it this week and some of us will mark it in the coming future. A church that I attend as a non denominational Christian had a short welcoming message for all of who are members of the body of Christ about how different we all are and how God can support us all. It focuses on neurodiversity. I wanted to share it with you.
" And Pentecost is a wonderful way of celebrating how God speaks to us in all our diversity. And we're thinking a bit about how God speaks to us in all our diverse neurotypes and calls us to be one in him. You may have heard of the term neurodeiversity and wondered what it meant. Or perhaps you know and love someone who's autistic or has ADHD or dyslexia or recognise yourself in some of the things you read or hear about them.
Perhaps you've seen conversations about neurodeiversity in the news or wondered if they're being overdiagnosed and thought to yourself such things didn't exist when you were young. Well, we all have a neurotype. That simply means the way your brain sees and understands the world, the way your brain works. You can't tell someone's neurotype from the outside or what they look like. You have to spend time with them, listening to them, living life
with them to begin to understand them better. That's true for all of us and that's something we try to live out as the body of Christ here. Neurodeiversity simply means the fact that in any gathering of any number of people, there will be a diversity of neurotypes. A whole range of different ways in which people's brains see and understand the world. And at Pentecost, we remember the way God poured out the Holy Spirit on all people in all our variety, in all our diversity, that all of us are loved by God and called by name, called as the people that we are. that the way our brain sees and understands the world, the way ourbrain relates to others, however that may be, is something that God has giftedus with to be our own selves for God in the world."
