Anything New?

Have you ever watched a tree, while the wind is blowing through it?  

I did this morning at dawn.  It was rather intriguing.  We think the wind just blows in one direction at a time.

Not ture!

At least as far as I could see, as I watched those branches go in all different directions all at once.

Not theological you say?  

                                   Not about Jesus you wonder?  

Check out this passage from the Gospel of John 3:

⁸The wind blows where it chooses, and you hear the sound of it, but you do not know where it comes from or where it goes. So it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit.’ ⁹Nicodemus said to him, ‘How can these things be?’ ¹⁰Jesus answered him, ‘Are you a teacher of Israel, and yet you do not understand these things?

As I watched the branches, dressed with it’s newly green growth, I couldn’t help but think about how the Spirit move in and around us.  Giving each of us in our own individual directions for this time in our lives.

And I thought: How interesting it is that we all assume — presume — to know what we don’t really know.  The common assumption often is that we are all guided, by the Spirit, in the same way.  That the way of the Spirit is the same for everyone.  I know I have been guilty of that assumption myself.  

You know, “be of the same mind” kind of thing.

But watching that tree made me think again.  

Think about this, If God wanted us to go in the same direction.  If God wanted us all to think the same way.  Nothing would ever be invented.  Nothing new would ever come into being.  Nothing,  or no one, would ever change and grow.

Didn’t “the one sitting on the throne say: “See I am making all things new?”(Rev. 21:5)    I know, quoting Revelations is a tricky thing to do.  But Check out Isaiah 43:18f) where God says “I am doing a new thing….”

A little proof texting, to remind us of the possibilities of God, is okay sometimes.  As long as we are forthright about it (;

Anyway, as we live our lives from day to day, year to year, don’t we learn more; and so think differently?  

Don’t we go to the same place in different directions?

Do we always do the same things the same way all the time?

Is there no room for different?  Or new possibility?

Some wouldn’t be doctors?  Some wouldn’t be teachers, or lawyers, or electrical workers or garbage persons or, or, or?  Would we all be just teachers?

No, God made us all individuals who walk through life all thinking and moving and being different.  

Right?

Just a silly imagination for an old — not so dumb — woman at dawn.