"How can a man be born when he is old?" Nicodemus asked. "Surely he cannot enter a second time into his mother's womb to be born!" Jesus answered, "I tell you the truth, no one can enter the kingdom of God unless he is born of water and the Spirit. Flesh gives birth to flesh, but the Spirit gives birth to spirit. You should not be surprised at my saying, 'You must be born again.' The wind blows wherever it pleases. You hear its sound, but you cannot tell where it comes from or where it is going. So it is with everyone born of the Spirit." "How can this be?" Nicodemus asked. (John 3:4-9)

Our second becoming is not a physical rebirthing, but a spiritual renewing.

The Greek for wind - pneuma - is the same word commonly used for spirit. We could read, "... born of water and the wind... The wind gives birth to wind... The spirit blows wherever it pleases."

Two centuries before Jesus, Chrysippus of Soli taught that the pneuma is an aspect of creation that causes movement in the universe and shapes individual growth. His original works are lost. But an ancient disciple explains, "The whole material world is unified by a pneuma which wholly pervades it and by which the universe is made coherent and kept together and is made intercommunicating." The pneuma actuates the logos: the fundamental character of the universe.

John begins his gospel with, "In the beginning was the logos, and the logos was with God, and the logos was God."

We are to become as the wind, originating in God and extending out from God to the whole of creation.