The story of the little wind

The little wind

The wind came from the sky in the direction of the stars. It was when the harmony was untouched, when man belonged to Everything there is. There had been many winds, but none like this one. This wind was a special one, a little one afraid to blow upon the sky, the earth and all living. It was afraid because it had been frightened once, though it could not remember when. It just had that feeling inside that it was not good enough, so it might as well not blow on anything, not touching a single creature with its love and energy. For that was what it was able to do, only the little wind did not believe it; it had forgotten.

The thing men call time passed by, and as it passed, the wind saw that its fellow men down on   Mother Earth had changed, and it could not understand them anymore. It knew that there was once a time when anything was connected to everything, but it now seemed as though the men on   Mother Earth had separated themselves from everything else. So it asked the Great Spirit what had happened, and the Spirit told it that the men had stopped listening with their hearts. They had grown scared and frightened for no matter, and now it seemed their fear caused them not only to act destructively towards Mother Earth, but also towards themselves. The wind got very sad for its fellow men and it wanted so badly to help them. Though how could it? The wind asked The Great Spirit how it could help its fellow men down on earth. Of course, the little wind already knew the answer before it had finished the question. The Great Spirit simply replied: “Blow”.

The little wind felt stupid and negative when the Great Spirit replied, for it seemed so simple, yet it was what it had always been afraid of. The little wind did not listen to the Great Spirit - how was it supposed to blow? Instead the wind decided to take a closer look and it flew close down to the earth where it met a little girl. The little girl seemed sad and frightened, but she did not even notice the wind, so the wind thought to itself that she could not be frightened because of its presence. There was something else wrong. It decided to listen to her heart, since the Great Spirit had told it that it was what men used to do. It heard a beautiful song coming inside from the little girl’s heart. It seemed so familiar to the wind, and the wind was drawn to it, it simply could not resist. Before the wind knew it, it blew and flew right through the little girl, touching her heart and feeling the song of the heart. All of a sudden, the wind realized what it had done – it had just blown on a girl even though it was afraid to do so. It was terrified, what would happen now? All of its days it had been so afraid to blow on anything, and now it had just blown on a little girl! But then it started listening to the song of the girl’s heart, and right there, it knew why it had been so drawn to her. The little girl was just like the little wind. She had been filled up with fear and filled with boundaries and limits about her own abilities. She had not been born this way with a feeling of limits and fear, for inside her heart she knew of the unlimited resources within her and the ever-loving peace surrounding her. With a single blow from the wind, it was like she too started listening to the beautiful song in her heart. The little wind was amazed! It had helped that little girl by blowing on her with its love and energy, only it had not been aware of its own powers. It too had been like that little girl, filled with fear from its own thinking. But by blowing on her, the girl started to be more happy and positive. She started feeling less afraid and now the wind had realized the connection between all and everything. If both the wind and the little girl could feel the same frightening and limiting feeling, then they could also feel the same love and energy. Now the little wind knew what the Great Spirit had meant with “blow” – it just needed to blow through its fellow men, and it knew that if it did it enough, more and more men would start feeling the connection the little girl also felt, and more and more men would remember to listen with their hearts.

So the little wind hurried back in the sky, calling all of its brothers and sisters. Together they were on a mission to help their fellow men, as their fellow men were also a part of them. The winds made an alliance with the sun, the moon and the stars – even with all living things on   Mother Earth, and of course   Mother Earth herself. Their mission was to guide and help their fellow men. As the sun shined new energy and love upon the men, so blew the wind on them to cleanse them from the old.

It was not an easy task to do, because many of the fellow men, almost all of them, had forgotten how to listen. The wind had to touch the heart of many men, and so it divided into four winds, one from each direction of the South, the North, the East and the West, that all came together in the center of the earth. This way it could touch the men from each corner of the world, no matter race or place.

Many of the things the fellow men had created on   Mother Earth got in the way of their mission. These were all just things of material art, still the men were very detached to it. The men were sad that all they had created was destroyed and some became very frightened of all that is called nature. But the wind never stopped blowing until all fear had disappeared. With no fear in their heads, the men could listen clearly with their hearts, and they all truly realized what a blessing they had been given. They knew that what they had first thought was sufferings, was indeed actions of love. They realized that this was the only way to really get them to listen. It was time for a fresh start and they decided to become students of nature, to learn all about their connection, so that they would never forget to listen with their hearts. They thanked the wind and the sky and everyone else who had helped, and prayed for   Mother Earth to heal. The men had no fear left because their hearts told them that something better was on its way - something called harmony. <3