Holy Spirit Like Wind Meaning: What John 3:8 Teaches About Spiritual Growth
What Crocheting in a Circle Taught Me About the Holy Spirit (John 3:8)
I was working on a crochet project the other night — a round piece, the kind where you start with a magic ring at the center and work outward in spirals. If you crochet, you know the rhythm: hook in, yarn over, pull through. Same motion, round and round, and the piece just… grows.
What I love about working in the round is that you can’t always tell where one row ends and the next begins. Especially if you’re not using a stitch marker. The rows blur into each other. The piece grows in a continuous spiral, and you only really notice the growth when you stop and look at how far you’ve come from that tiny ring at the center.
I was thinking about that when I remembered what Jesus said to Nicodemus about the Holy Spirit:
“The wind blows where it wishes and you hear the sound of it, but do not know where it comes from and where it is going; so is everyone who is born of the Spirit” (John 3:8).
The word for “wind” and “Spirit” in Greek is the same word — pneuma. Jesus is using a deliberate double meaning. The Spirit moves like wind. You can feel it. You can see what it does — leaves rustling, flags snapping, trees bending. But you can’t see it. You can’t predict it. You can’t control where it goes.
Working in the round feels like that sometimes. You’re doing the same faithful motion — hook in, yarn over, pull through — and for a while it doesn’t look like anything is happening. The piece is small. The progress is invisible. You can’t see where one row ended and the next started.
But then you stop. You hold it up. And something has been growing the whole time.
That’s how the Spirit works in most of our lives. Not in dramatic, visible bursts (though sometimes that happens). But in the quiet, faithful rhythm of showing up — reading a verse, saying a prayer, choosing patience when everything in you wants to snap, forgiving one more time when it would be easier not to.
You don’t always feel the growth. You can’t always see where the last season ended and this one began. But the piece is bigger than it was when you started. The Spirit has been working in the spiral.
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Final Thought
The Spirit works in the spiral.
You may not see it happening.
But if you keep going…
You’ll look up one day and realize:
You’ve grown.
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