The wind has been my teacher.
My first memory of the wind was as a child playing in the woods behind my house. I barely noticed the wind until I heard a noise and felt a whoosh around my body. The atmosphere seemed to shift, suddenly. I looked up. The trees, once large and stable, now seemed small and frail as they swayed in the wind. The safety of the forest seemed threatened. The power of the wind took my breath away. I was scared and ran home.
Spinning in my head was a commercial in which Mother Nature said, "It's not nice to fool Mother Nature". The weather suddenly changed. The wind kicked up.
It all made an impression. I sure didn't want to mess with Her or the Wind, for that matter!
Recently, I crossed the Pyrenees Mountains from France into Spain walking the Camino de Santiago Frances. The wind picked up and grabbed my attention. It accompanied many days upon my 40-day Pilgrimage. The wind came to represent “winds of forgiveness”. Rumi’s words echoed in the wind reminding me that everything was preparing me for a new life. Let the wind prepare you by clearing away any ideas of “right doing or wrongdoing”. The winds carried me there. Sometimes urgently. Sometimes gently.
Since moving to Virginia Beach, I have come to contemplate the wind again. Living near the ocean, I now heed the weather app icon. It is not fooling around -- it's windy out there!
Recently I was invited to fly a kite on that windy beach. I hadn’t done this since I was a kid! Once the strings were in my hands and the kite took flight, I was enthralled. The force of the wind was so strong, it nearly took me up with the kite! Joy washed over me with uncontrollable laughter and screams. Then, BAM, the wind crashes the kite onto the sand.
Did you know that the same dynamics that enable a heavy jetliner to fly are the very same dynamics in play to fly a kite? The dynamic is like a mathematical equation. When the variables are aligned, flight happens.
Spirituality operates in a similar fashion. There are changeless principles that operate mathematically regardless of conditions. It is our role to align with the principle. When we do, it works and we fly. When we don’t, it is still working, even though we don’t take flight and sometimes seem to crash.
Flying a kite upon the windy beach reminded me of a few things about spirituality and life.
There's a Power in the Universe. It operates according to a Law or spiritual principles. I choose whether to comply with the principles. When I do, I can fly my kite in all kinds of beautiful ways.
This Power and the principles by which it works operate no matter how I perceive the “size” the situation. I was taught that there is no big or small in God (Love, Creation) or the Law (the way It works).
As I maneuvered the kite, small changes in me created big results. When I reacted to the force of the wind with my own force, it crashed! BAM! However thoughtful, small adjustments led to a beautiful dance of the kite upon wind, held in sky, connected to me by a thin string. Beautiful. Fun. Joyful. Play.
How good, healing, freeing it is to play with childlike wonder and awe at the magnificence of Life and how it works! How good it is to be filled with Joy!
You are here for a reason, Beloved. The wind can be scary sometimes. Yet, you have everything you need to soar and rise above it all.
Spiritual Laws are for us, not against us. I am grateful they don’t change. It means I can trust them to work no matter the state if the wind. They work when we utilize and comply with the way It works. Every time. I invite you to prove this in your life now.
Please join your Unity Renaissance Family this Easter Season as we Rise and Remember to soar and be the Ascended Life together, here and now.
I love you,
Reverend René