“The wind blows where it wills, and you can hear the sound it makes, but you do not know where it comes from or where it goes; so it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit.”
A question for so many of us has to do with God’s will for us. In the image used by Jesus in today’s Gospel, Jesus uses nature to answer that question. We do not know God’s will for us, but we feel it. God’s will flows through our lives and if we listen, we can hear the sound it makes.
So many say they connect most with God in nature, yet when asked what that means, they don’t know. God is inviting us to notice God in nature and to be aware of each other as well. We see God in the joys and hopes, the griefs and anguish of all people, all of those we meet and encounter. God is in all we know, we share, who and what we are. Ignatius invites us to find God in all, not just in some. May this season of Easter help us find God more.
—Fr. Kevin Schneider, SJ, is a Jesuit of the Midwest Province and a spiritual director and priest in residence at The Cloisters on the Platte Retreat Center in Gretna, Nebraska.