Beautiful Words Blog | It's Back (The Blog and The Wind) by John Moropoulos | Gateway Christian Fellowship

March 16, 2026

Okay, so after a prolonged absence, it’s back (the blog). After a brief absence, the wind is back too.  So let’s talk about it.  The wind that is.

Our Lord commented on the wind, “The wind blows where it wishes and you hear the sound of it, but do not know where it comes from and where it is going; so is everyone who is born of the Spirit.”  Jesus was commenting on the nature of the Spirit led life.  In this writing I would like to begin with His observation about the wind.

Wind is an amazing thing, particles of air, invisible to our eyes, moving about, endlessly attempting to bring stability to our ever-changing atmosphere, endlessly compelled to motion by the continual heating and cooling of our planet, rudely interrupted by the mountains and valleys of the earth’s surface, alternately cooled or warmed by the waters of the great oceans.  Always changing, always moving.  It’s all very dramatic.

We may bless the wind when it cools a day that would otherwise be unbearably hot.   We rail against, sometimes even cursing it, when it interferes with our plans, disturbs our things, and litters our landscape with the evidence of our materialism.  

We try to harness the wind’s amazing power.  Those who have sailed understand the wind’s capacity to take us places.  Man has circumnavigated the globe using nothing more than the power of the wind.  Windmills and wind generators, devices spanning over 1000 years, have been built in an attempt to harness the wind’s power.

Wind can be incredibly destructive.  The havoc left behind by a hurricane or tornado can be indescribable.  Wind can bring us pure and simple joy: a parent and child flying a kite.  The beauty of it.  Sticks, string, tape or glue, paper, and a friend. That is all one needs.  And a bit of wind. 

But the fundamental truth remains, “The wind blows where it wishes, and you hear the sound of it, but do not know where it comes from or where it is going.”  What a marvelous gift from God!

At one moment, it humbles us, as we stand powerless before it.  Though we may attempt to harness it, any effort at controlling it is futile.  The best we can do is deal with it as it comes to us.  

But we do hear it. We can feel it.  The same Creator Who made it made us.  And He made us in our marvelous complexity to experience it in all of its complexity.  It is all at once a reminder that He is so very far above us and at the exact same moment with us, and in us.  It reminds us, all at once, of humanity’s great abilities and of the very real limits to our abilities.

So I will praise Him for it.  Even as I chase our garbage can down the street.