Second only to videos starring cats, the most popular genre of clips and videos these days is the ‘epic fail’. Go ahead, open youtube today after church and type in ‘epic fail.’  You’ll see dozens of videos, each with a million views, of a parent getting on their child’s kiddy toy, and destroying the toy and themselves in the process.You’ll see large adults trying the backyard slip & slide, and careening through the neighbors fence. You’ll see more serious fails, like people opening their car door and having it smashed off by passing traffic. For some reason we love watching people fail miserably at things. Why do we love this?  Well maybe it’s a reaction to perfection culture, where everyone cherry picks only the best events, photos and videos of themselves to create an ideal image online. These failures bring us back to how life really is, with as many slip ups as successes.  But I think the deeper reason we resonate with epic fails, both silly and serious, has to do with our very nature as fallen creatures of God.  In the very heart of creation, in the very heart of each of us there remains an epic fail, a tendency to fall whenever grasping for our highest ideals.  Today’s feast of Pentecost reminds us of our human nature to fail, but then turns that epic fail on its head with the coming of the Holy Spirit.