The Wind

My husband & I took a long walk today with our 2 dogs. The wind was so strong that it was hard for our old dog to walk straight. He was getting pushed over and sometimes tripping off the sidewalk. We walked through the park and sat on a bench and watched the wind blow on the little pond in front of us making little ripples all across the surface. We observed the leaves getting swept along.

My husband said that the wind was God's way of dusting off everything; that the wind was what scattered the seeds so that young plants can start on their own and receive light from the sun. He went on to say that the wind removed the dead leaves from the trees & birds could "ride the wind" to warmer climates. The wind is apart of the eco-system. Wind normally travels west to east. This day it was coming out of the north, but it wasn't cold. He also said that if God hadn't created the wind, he imagined that plants and trees would die. Wind creates pressure along it's path and thus produces thunderstorms.

I found this conversation stimulating. My mind when off a trail and saw the similarities to our lives. God creates wind in our own lives to dust us off to make us more like Him, to scatter seeds of love, to create pressure hard enough for us to change. All the while not being able to understand his ways, but to see the results of His ways produced in our lives...especially during and after a thunderstorm. ..after the wind dies down there is calm....and during a storm the dust is being removed! When our Lord walk on water in that horrific thunderstorm, He was calm. Let's trust God to give us the calm in the midst of the thunderstorms of life! The wind is producing in us a glory that far outweighs them all...we can't physically see Jesus but we know He is there. We can't see the wind either, but we know it is there. The affects are Life Changing!