The scene is Pentecost. Tongues of fire dance through the room. Men from Galilee, probably not highly educated, speak in languages they do not understand. They don’t know what they are saying. It’s gibberish to them. Meanwhile, people from foreign countries hear the Galileans in their own native languages, and they understand. How can this happen? they wonder. But there must be a reason for everything, so it is suggested that all the Galileans are drunk. Mystery solved. Since they are drunk they can speak foreign languages. Pass me that bottle.
Just because I do not know how to speak German or French does not mean that the Spirit must remain silent. And just because I do not understand how uneducated men can speak a foreign language, one that I understand, does not mean the Spirit cannot communicate. And, just because I cannot explain a strange, unusual moment or circumstance does not mean that I have to speculate a reasonable answer. Not everything has an answer; not everything is knowable. Some things are beyond my capacity to understand, but that does not deny its relevance or reality.
The Spirit empowers the Word to be spoken and the Word to be heard. Listen to the mountain; it speaks. Listen to the train whistle in the distance; it speaks. All things have the capacity to Spirit-speak, even without our permission. The Spirit blows where it wills, in ways that it wills, and at times that may seem inconvenient. God still speaks. Sometimes truth must be said, even though I may not understand the reasons why. God’s reasons are most often mystery to Galileans like us, but someone else may hear and be transformed. That’s the way it works. That’s the truth.
Shining Spirit 
Sometimes I do not even understand the words of my own language.