This explanation is distracting. The "wind" in the passage is pneuma--Holy Spirit, the wind is not us or suggested to be us. Jesus is using the image of the physical wind to remind us that we can know a thing and not fully understand it. The Holy Spirit moves like the wind doing and being and we can live into that movement rather than seek to master it, as with the wind. Nowhere is this image related to us as "the wind."
Dear Fr. Burk, I don't think he's saying that the wind is us. He ends very simply by asking us to "let go", let go of the heavy weights of worry and fear, hurt and shame that weigh us down, so we can't be inhabited and lifted by the wind, the Holy Spirit. It's not that we are the wind, it's that like the disciples at Pentecost, we can be filled with that Wind, and know the freedom from our frozenness and heaviness, to be lifted and carried where it would take us. Where it would take us is deeper into who we were created to be in the utter love of God, isn't it, by carrying that love on that wind that frees us, to be poured out to others. It leads me to the thought of our ultimate union with Christ and with God, through our trusting and eventually joyful surrender to the Holy Spirit. As Jesus said, "I am in the Father, you are in me, and I am in you."
Amen❤
Simplicity on the far side of complexity
This explanation is distracting. The "wind" in the passage is pneuma--Holy Spirit, the wind is not us or suggested to be us. Jesus is using the image of the physical wind to remind us that we can know a thing and not fully understand it. The Holy Spirit moves like the wind doing and being and we can live into that movement rather than seek to master it, as with the wind. Nowhere is this image related to us as "the wind."
Dear Fr. Burk, I don't think he's saying that the wind is us. He ends very simply by asking us to "let go", let go of the heavy weights of worry and fear, hurt and shame that weigh us down, so we can't be inhabited and lifted by the wind, the Holy Spirit. It's not that we are the wind, it's that like the disciples at Pentecost, we can be filled with that Wind, and know the freedom from our frozenness and heaviness, to be lifted and carried where it would take us. Where it would take us is deeper into who we were created to be in the utter love of God, isn't it, by carrying that love on that wind that frees us, to be poured out to others. It leads me to the thought of our ultimate union with Christ and with God, through our trusting and eventually joyful surrender to the Holy Spirit. As Jesus said, "I am in the Father, you are in me, and I am in you."