Have you heard Donovan's (a singer popular in the Sixties) song, Catch the Wind?  A rather melodic piece replete with dreamy lyrics and an aura of otherworldliness, it sings of a person's desire for his lover.  For all these desires expressed, however, the singer cannot seem to reach her inner heart.  It's like, he says, trying "to catch the wind."  So he says, "For standing in your heart is where I want to be and long to be; ah, but I may as well try and catch the wind."
     Many of us spend our lives trying to "catch the wind," seeking constantly to capture the deeper heart of our existence, ever striving to penetrate beneath the surface of what we see, to find the richer piece that makes life meaningful and worthwhile.  Some of us find it; others do not.  Most of us, however, find something.  In his Wind, Sand and Stars, (published in 1939), French aviator and explorer Antoine de Saint-Exupery observes about the enormity of the Sahara Desert, "Let it form, deep in the heart, that obscure range from which, as waters form a spring, are born our dreams."
     Indeed.  To love and seek meaning amidst the various deserts and winds, the mountains and valleys of our lives is the most noble of pursuits.  It is to find the center of our existence, the core of who we are, our heart of hearts, our place in God's personal universe.  We live to dream.  And even if we "catch the wind," even if we do not meet, fully, in this life, that which we love most, we seek anyway, for we know that because God has made--and, in Jesus, validated--the world, its present, past, and future, we will one day find it.
     Happy trails!