There is a big wind blowing. The wind drives the snow across the fields molding and sculpting the landscape to look like ocean waves. As the wind pursues the warm air it carries, it melts away the snow revealing pockets of dirt, left over garbage and patches of slippery ice.  The trees on the edges bend and sway with the power of the wind and the power we see raises anxiety. We don’t know what to expect. Will something be damaged? Will something blow away?  We feel it in our insides. Fear rustles in our guts.  Sometimes the wind arouses us only to look and to notice, sometimes it leaves us with major clean up and disaster to overcome. Yet, no matter how fiercely the wind may rage, it too passes and it leaves us with the need to change.

At times, we may experience a spirit wind within us.   We are tossed up and down like a wee boat in a hurricane. Unexpectedly, the spirit wind blows through our soul requiring us to change, not asking but powerfully forcing us to. The spirit wind blows away our pretenses. It reveals what lies underneath and asks us to look at our dark and dirty places. It unclothes hidden desires and unknown beliefs; the ones we try so hard to ignore and pretend do not exist. We are melted and exposed. The spirit wind lays our heart and soul bare to the world.  It calls us to examine our motives; it asks us to look at our shadow side. Sometimes it is gentle and arouses us to look and notice, to wake up and pay attention, but sometimes it blasts away what we no longer need with the force of the tornado, clearing the way. 

The winds always carry a message. Life is constantly evolving. You cannot remain stagnant where you are. You are meant to grow.  You are called to grow.  You must grow. When you feel the spirit wind, you are  ready, ready for new beginning. Turn your face to the wind.