'Fir Al' ('for all' in Luxembourgish)
Sitting at New Jersey airport some years ago, Orthodox Jews began arriving at our gate, dressed rather dramatically and beautifully.
First I noticed one or two, then I noticed a few more, soon there was a plentiful gathering. They lined up neatly (next to the toilets) and prayed in turn, from the Torah, rocking their heads from side to side when standing in front of the wall.
So who's for the Kosher meal? joked my other half.
The prayer energy from the Orthodox Jews was immense. I could feel waves of sacred space flowing from their orisons.
We were headed for Frankfurt and the plane sped us to our destination two hours earlier than expected. Other half explained that this was the Atlantic cross winds who had kindly breathed favourably upon our flight. I suppose it was. But it did leave me with a question, from whence blows the wind? In geographic terms, I am sure a meteorologist could answer. However, who created the wind and why? Science explains how, someone once told me, but not why.
Nicodemus, a member of the High Council who agreed to crucify Jesus, visited Jesus in secret and helped take his body down from the cross after the crucifixion. He asked Jesus about being born again, what does this mean? and Jesus replied it means that it is necessary to be reborn in Spirit.
'....The wind blows wherever it pleases. You hear its sound, but you cannot tell where it comes from or where it is going. So it is with everyone born of the Spirit.' Jesus from John's gospel.
John Donne wrote the famous lines 'for whom the bell tolls, it tolls for thee'. In other words the death knell, the bell traditionally tolled at funerals, will one day toll for all. However, those born of the spirit will be, and are, in eternity with Jesus already from, using CS Lewis' words, beyond the dawn of time.
The wind blows where it will. It blows fir al.
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By Ann
