Wind
May 24, 2021 • Rev. Dr. Paul H. Lang
Since 1999 Pastor Paul has visited the (Trappist) Monastery of the Holy Spirit in Conyers, Georgia many times. He goes to spend time alone with God away from the many demands of life and work in the church. One year as he sat in the yard of the monastery composing music for an up-coming worship service the wind was blowing and he began to think of all the times the Spirit of God is experienced as Wind. The song below was written as a reflection on that metaphor of wind as the Holy Spirit.
tôhû wabôhû is a transliteration of the Hebrew phrase which the NRSV translates “without form and void.” It indicates persistent disordered chaos.