{"id":376,"date":"2009-11-01T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-01T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/drnorrischumleysatisfiedlife\/2009\/11\/spirit-in-the-wind.html"},"modified":"2009-11-01T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-01T01:00:00","slug":"spirit-in-the-wind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/drnorrischumleysatisfiedlife\/2009\/11\/spirit-in-the-wind.html","title":{"rendered":"Spirit in the Wind"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today, All Saint’s Day, I’m thankful for the wind, today.
\nI love how it blows life into everything – especially me!
\nI love how the wind moves the clouds, and the leaves on the trees, and
\nhow the birds ride on it.
\nInvisible, yet there, giving life and moving life.
\nJust like God.
\nI think of the Hebrew word for Spirit – Ruach – which means wind. I
\nthink of the Hindu idea of Prana, the breath of life that courses
\nthrough our bodies and minds. The Christian concept of Pneuma, of air,
\nof Spirit, which Jesus gave up when he died on the cross–it is the
\nair, the wind that breathes life. It is the air that goes out of us
\nwhen it’s time to leave this life.
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