Winds have wreaked havoc in the area
grabbing everyone’s attention,
causing delays, changed plans, frustration.
Electrical outages deprive houses of heat,
communication, comfort, normal routines.
Who would want to see anything similar in God
and this inconvenience? Maybe Pentecost brought a wind
but when has it happened recently? God brings good,
works wonders, changes lives…like the storm?
Surely not! Would God deprive houses of heat?
He might well send people out into the cold, into service,
outside comfort zones. Does God block communication?
Maybe…Doesn’t he prevent our hearing comfortable words,
platitudes, our own justifications
when we assume them true?
Normal routines turn topsy-turvy
when God speaks and we hear…
Our chosen route yields to the voice of wisdom
when we listen, perceiving, receiving.
We do what we would not have, realizing, evolving.
One way to know God has nothing to do
when our perceived message from him
is a static relationship, our standing
firmly planted in a comfort zone,
innured to the fear and courage integral to rashly doing
that which we are called to. God is indeed a mighty wind,
blowing us into our best selves.