Let it blow!

 

Developers are hoping to construct a windfarm with the tallest windmills in the UK, less than a mile from our home. They would tower over our area, affording a view from the top that would stretch  twenty miles to the North Sea. There is active consternation being channelled into the resistance movement, which is, curiously enough, spearheaded by many who are active environmentalists.

One of the arguments against the construction of this apparently-green proposal is that Scotland does not have the infrastructure for the energy gathered from the windfarms already in existence, let alone this proposed gargantuan one. Another is that offshore windfarms are more efficient. Another is that the landowner is eager to sell for this purpose because it will generate for him a staggeringly large annual income.

Often when we drive across country here, we see windmills which are not moving, despite others in the vicinity spinning in the wind. I don’t know if that’s because the static ones are undergoing repairs, or are just not catching the wind, or are turned off because there is no infrastructure available to deal with any energy they might generate.

The wind of the Spirit blows where it will. It generates love and joy and peace, kindness and goodness and faithfulness, gentleness and perseverance. Let it blow on me, let it blow on me, let the mighty love of God inspire and move me to actions large and small.