“You don’t
need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows”
Bob Dylan
I watched the sky move last night,
after the rain stopped the clouds lifted and drifted off; the stars poked out
and laid out all around them was the blackness of the space beyond…amazing
night.
Amazing how things can change so
quickly, I was just hunkering down for a good winter storm and out come the
stars!
I watched the sky…clouds skiffing
by, teasing the stars masquerading as will-o-wisps, dancing past, rearranging
themselves into living creatures, angels, animals, lions, bears; silent, still,
but on the move. Soundless roars, paws
lifted, morphing into waves, waves of ocean spray rolling over each other like
the bottom of Niagra Falls, rushing, blowing in the wind, filling in the black empty
spaces that are now gone with the wind.
Amazing how things can change so
quickly, like the blink of an eye really, here today, gone tomorrow…life
changes too, just like that…in the blink of an eye.
I watched ‘Gone with the Wind’
this past week, there had been some talk in our Bible study about it, in fact a
bit of it was used by the author of the study we are in the midst of and I
wanted to see what the reference was about, maybe settle a bit of the
controversy that had crept up around it.
I watched the whole four hours, well, broken between two evenings, I
loved it; I could hardly wait for the next evening when I could continue the
saga. What I found was a story of a
young woman whose life is in constant change and how she makes her way through
the challenges, how sometimes she is the blame for the changes and how sometimes
she has no control at all, her world is caught up in winds of change…changing
in a way that things will never be the same again…her world, gone with the wind.
It is this way for us too, some changes
we have no control over, yet we need to make responses while living in the midst
of it; the wind blowing all around us.
Have you ever been out in the wind and your breath seems to be sucked from
you and you gasp, feeling caught up, lost in the wind, your very breath, gone
with the wind?
I have, I know the feeling and I
know this…I need to stand, to simply stand, the breath comes back and I carry
on through the storm.
Some circumstances are beyond our
control; whether it is war, sickness or death, fire, flood or wind…stand your
ground.
“Therefore
put on the full armor of God so that when the day comes,
you may
be able to stand your ground and after you have done everything, just stand”
Ephesians
6:13
So, I watched the sky move,
I wondered about the rain… gone for the moment; the stars twinkling bright,
the clouds rolling past, blowing in the wind…God whispering good night.