The Fourth Week of Easter: From FEAR to TRUST

STEP ONE: BREATHE

Take a deep, cleansing breath. Allow the air to fill your lungs and expand your body. Exhale and empty yourself into the room. Repeat three times - once for the one who Created you, once for the Incarnate One who walks beside you, and once for the Spirit whose life fills your being.

STEP TWO: DWELL IN WORD

“Don’t be so surprised when I tell you that you have to be ‘born from above’—out of this world, so to speak. You know well enough how the wind blows this way and that. You hear it rustling through the trees, but you have no idea where it comes from or where it’s headed next. That’s the way it is with everyone ‘born from above’ by the wind of God, the Spirit of God.””

— JOHN 3: 7-8 (The Message)

The Way of the Wind

Tender Mercy, Whisper of Wind,

Breathe on our journey.

Move us again.

Pulling hard against the wind, trusting strength and will

(But) never getting anywhere till sails are Spirit filled.

Tender Mercy, Whisper of Wind,

Breathe on our journey.

Move us again.

Around this ship of destiny, a breeze, a gust, a gale.

Can’t predict the ways of wind, but we can hoist a sail.

Tender Mercy, Whisper of Wind,

Breathe on our journey.

Move us again.

Sea of space and time - Wind of Love divine

Currents of holy breath carry us home beyond death.

Tender Mercy, Whisper of Wind,

Breathe on our journey.

Move us again.

STEP THREE: PRAY

O Wind of Divine Love, breathe on us when we are in the doldrums. May we be moved by the current and flow of your Spirit to the place beyond death which is our destiny. Amen.

Today’s devotion is by Pastor Steve Thompson (song/prayer) and Pastor Tom Jenkins (photo)

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