{"id":337,"date":"2026-03-02T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/?p=337"},"modified":"2026-02-27T23:53:54","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T23:53:54","slug":"wind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wind\/","title":{"rendered":"Wind"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2026\/02\/26-03-02-blickpixel-dandelion-463928_640-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2026\/02\/26-03-02-blickpixel-dandelion-463928_640-copy.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2026\/02\/26-03-02-blickpixel-dandelion-463928_640-copy-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2026\/02\/26-03-02-blickpixel-dandelion-463928_640-copy-560x374.jpg 560w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Image by Michael Schwarzenberger from Pixabay<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><em>\u201cThe wind blows where it chooses, and you hear the sound of it, <\/em><br><em>but you do not know where it comes from or where it goes. <\/em><br><em>So it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit.\u201d <\/em><br>&#8211; John 3:8 (NRSVue)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\"><br>Activity<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">Ponder this poetic and mysterious saying of Jesus and wonder how being like the wind is characteristic of people who are born of, or participate in, God\u2019s Holy Spirit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">Find a way to experience wind or feel the movement of air. If it\u2019s windy, go outside for a few moments. If you are in a building with forced air, hold your hand over a vent. If you have a fan, turn it on and sit in front of it for a minute. What does it feel like? How does it affect you?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">How do we know when the wind is at work?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe 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.\u201d &#8211; John 3:8 (NRSVue) Activity Ponder this poetic and mysterious saying of Jesus and wonder how being like<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5],"class_list":["post-337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-tiny-retreat"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=337"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":339,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337\/revisions\/339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}