My wife and I were having dinner outside, after a day of Church, swimming and little fishing in Algoma, WI on Lake Michigan. I looked up and saw this large tree blowing in the wind. The wind that day made for some great waves in Lake Michigan to stand in and was really blowing the tree.

This reminded me of one of my favorite folk songs “Blowin’ in the Wind” with the refrain: “The answer, my friend, is blowing in the wind. The answer is blowing in the wind.” We have been talking about “letting go” and allowing God to work in us so this seemed the perfect imagine to end a relaxing weekend.

In the Gospel of John Jesus tells Nicodemus how someone can be born again: “The wind blows wherever it pleases. You hear its sound, but you cannot tell where it comes from or where it is going. So it is with everyone born of the Spirit.” There are lots of mysteries in life we do not understand. By allowing ourselves, like the tree, to blow in the wind we can be “born of the Spirit”.

How do we attain this Spirit of allowing God to act thru us? A wise man once wrote the way to this awareness of the Spirit working with us was silence. His disciple asked him how we obtain this silence? The wise man answered “by silence.” In silence we can hear the sound of the wind but “cannot tell where it comes or where it is going”.

It is not important where the wind comes from or goes. However, allowing ourselves to blow in the wind we can find the answer.

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