HOLY WIND

 

The Second Day of Spring

Coffee With Jesus

March 21, 2025


Good Morning Lord! Is that you speaking to me in the wind moving through the bare trees outside my window? They dance so gracefully, limbs lifting upwards, swaying fluidly, bending even while vulnerable in their nakedness. Unlike me, they abandon themselves unfettered to joyful dancing in praise for you as did David. They are anchored by their roots deep in the earth, but still they move in an act of worship. They dance with joy when the air around them is cold, the wind even colder, the ground frozen, the sky above as gray and hard as granite. What are you whispering to the trees this morning? What song are you singing to them that only they can hear to dance to? What did you say in the roaring wind  last night? On some days like today when I am troubled by so many things I feel like Elijah looking for you and not finding you; my eyes not seeing you, my ears straining to hear your voice above the roar of current events, disappointments, unfulfilled wishes and dreams and balancing the waning energy and health challenges of aging and caregiving.


How holy is your movement of air with the wind! Your Spirit as wind hovered in the darkness over the shapeless void of what would become earth as we know it. How still it must have been  with the only  movement that of your Spirit. We marvel at your wind, it has long held us in awe. No one but You Lord can control the wind. The wind blows where it pleases, changing directions so that we can not tell precisely from where it’s come or to where it will go.I give give thanks for your life giving wind/breath (רוּחַ Ruach) with which you.breathed life into dust. Like our breathing, the wind is rhythmic, it ebbs and flows, giving and  and taking like the waves of the ocean washing the beach.Why do I find it so hard to believe that I can step out onto the waves with you or that you can quiet the roaring wind to give me a safe quiet place in the storms that arise in my life?


I think I hear you now Lord. You are reminding me to just be still, calm down and trust you to take care of us. You will provide all I need to care for my husband, you will provide all we need to live. You want me to have joy no matter what I’m doing. I am “making much ado about nothing” worried when I could be reveling in joyful moments with you and my loved one instead. How easily I can say “This is the day the Lord has made, I will rejoice and be glad in it.” but if I’m not acting in joy it’s just lip service.  Joy makes the load a little lighter, easier to carry especially if I share it with you Jesus. If you’ll excuse me Lord, I think I’m going to go do a little dancing for a bit. I love you Lord!


Genesis 1:2

Genesis 2:7

Psalm 150:4

Psalm 40:10

PSALM 118:4

Isaiah 55:12

1 Kings 19:9-13

John 3:8

Matthew 8:26-27

1 Thessalonians 5:16-18


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