Wind of the Spirit

I seem to be stuck at Eastertide this year.,, So many thot's about resurrection power and the veil being rent to allow new dimensions of love and life!

While walking by the lake and enjoying the breeze gently, then not so gently, blowing the green bows of early summer, I got to thinking of the mighty Wind of His Spirit given to us in fullness at Pentecost.

I and my sister here on the Island, do not much like the wind - she has to put up with it as lake winds rush mightily across her yard; I hide in my bush where winds are gentled and  caught by the mighty pine and whispering aspen,- so do not blow quite as hard on me. For both of us, days are made by how the wind blows in many ways... and today, wind blows with not so much pollen, as tender aspen and maple flutter and sing.

As I write this, I am also reminded of the differences of the winds of nature, the world and the winds of the Spirit. CS Lewis put it so well.. The road to living by the wind of the Spirit is in this statement:

The real problem of the Christian life comes where people do not usually look for it. It comes the very moment you wake up each morning.

All your wishes and hopes for the day rush at you like wild animals.

And the first job each morning consists simply in shoving them all back, in listening to that other voice, taking that other point of view…Letting that other larger, stronger, quieter life come flowing in. And so on, all day.
Standing back from all your natural fussings and frettings

Coming in out of the wind.” ~C.S. Lewis

Acts 2:2 ESV
And suddenly there came from heaven a sound like a mighty rushing wind, and it filled the entire house where they were sitting.

I do not like the wind My Lord,

But I have learned to love it!

You have shown me..

Dancing with joy and laughter,

Pulling tricks- a gammon of delight,

Joying in it's Master.

Leading the way

To calming peace and rapture!

Breath o breathe,

My Love,

The Wind of Your Spirit,

On troubled soul herafter,

As I yield to your Wind 

Calling to me... 

                        and to you...

To join life's dance with the 

Master!

June 2, 2011 Gloria Taliotis