As we prepare to celebrate your Ascension and the coming of your Holy Spirit on Pentecost, help me, Lord, to reflect on your teachings concerning the gift of the Spirit. You said that the Father desires to give the Holy Spirit to all who ask with certainty and trust in the Father. (Lk 11:13) I ask fervently and sincerely, "Come, Holy Spirit, come like a fresh, new invigorating wind. Come and set my heart ablaze with a greater zeal for the work of the Kingdom. Open the doors that you desire me to enter. Prepare the hearts you wish me to reach out to with the truth of the Gospel. Throughout  it all, may I decrease and the Lord Jesus increase.