A Blind Hog

A friend often refers to the way we find truths by saying that even a blind hog finds an acorn once in awhile.  Sometimes in my reading and searching the Word, I end up feeling like the blind hog.  Maybe others have had the experience of reading the same Word, considering the same stories, and meditating on the same images over years and years only to suddenly find something never seen.  Maybe I am not the only one who has had this happen, but if so, I claim it!

 

While reading "Water, Wind, Earth, and Fire"  written by Christine Valters Paintner, I came across a sentence or two which brought forth the hog image.  She was writing about air or the wind and said, "Wind is the only one of the four elements that is invisible....Air is also the medium of sound waves and thus language and communication.  It is connected to voice, our ability to speak of what is most precious to us and to communicate with others."   Thinking of the wind as the Spirit has been a frequently considered image, but never have I been caused to think of it as did this author.

 

The Wind of God is the means by which His voice is heard in our world.  It is the means by which the Holy Word is heard in the innermost part of our being.  It is the language which communicates with the soul in each one of us.  There are numerous references in Scripture to the Word of the Lord being spoken, but somehow I have never made the connection that the Voice of God  was communicated through this Holy Wind which is constantly stirring everything around us and within us.  Just call me an old blind hog who has found another acorn.